Courses

Offroad Robotics and its members are active in both research and teaching at Queen’s University. Learn more about the courses affiliated with Offroad via these pages.

Stay tuned for new courses associated with the new undergraduate degree program at Queen’s in Mechatronics & Robotics Engineering.

Active and Recently Taught

ELEC 845 Autonomous Vehicle Control and Navigation (W2020, F2020)
ELEC 443 Linear Control Systems (F2019)

Discontinued

MINE 472 Mining Systems, Automation and Robotics
MINE 855 Autonomous Ground Vehicles Engineering
MINE 853 Mining Robotics

ELEC 845 Autonomous Vehicle Control & Navigation

The objective of this course is to introduce graduate-level engineering students to the fundamentals of autonomous vehicle control, localization, and mapping. This course focuses on those tasks usually carried out by autonomy engineers, including sensor selection, applied control (e.g., trajectory and path following) and navigation techniques for autonomous vehicles that operate in real environments (e.g.,…

MINE 472 Mining Systems, Automation & Robotics

This course has been discontinued. MINE 472 was an online course developed by Joshua Marshall, Scott Nokleby, and Heshan Fernando, which was offered at Queen’s University from 2015-2020. Its development was originally funded by the Ontario Online initiative. Overview In order to address issues related to safety, productivity, and remote operations, the world’s mineral resources industry…