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This course covers the following topics at an advanced level: Newton’s laws and kinematics of systems of particles and rigid bodies; Lagrange’s equations for single- and multi-degree-of-freedom systems composed of point masses; normal mode analysis and forced linear systems with damping, the matrix exponential and stability theory for linear systems; nonlinear equations of motion: structure, passivity, PD control, noise models and stochastic equations of motion; manipulator dynamics: Newton-Euler formulation, Langrange, Kane’s formulation of dynamics, computing torques with O(n) recursive manipulator dynamics: Luh-Walker-Paul, Hollerbach, O(n) dynamic simulation: Rodrigues-Jain-Kreutz, Saha, Fixman. There is also an individual course project that each student must do which related the topics of this course to his or her research.