Videos
Curated video resources on robotics, control theory, biomechanics, and golf science
Educational Courses
Modern Robotics
Comprehensive course by Kevin Lynch covering modern robotics fundamentals, including kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, and control. Essential for understanding robotic manipulators and their control.
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Advanced control theory course by Wei Zhang covering nonlinear control, optimal control, and advanced techniques for robotic systems. Highly relevant for understanding control-affine systems.
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MIT course by Professor Russ Tedrake on control of underactuated systems. Explores how to exploit natural dynamics rather than cancel them out, highly relevant to biomechanical systems like the golf swing.
Watch Playlist → (opens in a new tab) View Course Notes → (opens in a new tab)Robotic Manipulation
MIT course by Russ Tedrake on robotic manipulation, covering grasp planning, contact modeling, and manipulation strategies. Relevant for understanding how forces and torques interact in complex systems.
Watch Playlist → (opens in a new tab)Nonlinear Dynamics - Steve Strogatz
Video playlist by Professor Steve Strogatz covering nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory, and complex systems. This series provides deep insights into the mathematical foundations of dynamical systems, which are fundamental to understanding control-affine systems and biomechanical modeling.
Watch Playlist → (opens in a new tab)Control Systems Course
Comprehensive video course on control systems covering fundamental concepts, analysis methods, and design techniques. This playlist provides essential knowledge for understanding feedback control, stability analysis, and system dynamics relevant to biomechanical and robotic systems.
Watch Playlist → (opens in a new tab)Control Systems - A. Sala Channel
YouTube channel by A. Sala featuring multiple playlists on control systems theory and applications. This channel offers comprehensive educational content covering various aspects of control engineering, including linear and nonlinear control, robust control, and practical applications relevant to understanding control-affine systems and biomechanical modeling.
View Channel Playlists → (opens in a new tab)Mecharithm - Robotics Course
Comprehensive robotics course from Mecharithm covering fundamental concepts in robotics, including kinematics, dynamics, and control. This playlist provides essential knowledge for understanding robotic systems and their applications to biomechanical modeling and control-affine systems.
Watch Playlist → (opens in a new tab)Mecharithm - Additional Course Content
Additional educational content from Mecharithm covering advanced topics in robotics and mechanical systems. This playlist complements the main robotics course and provides deeper insights into specialized areas relevant to understanding complex mechanical systems and their control.
Watch Playlist → (opens in a new tab)Kane's Method
Educational video explaining Kane's method, a powerful technique for deriving equations of motion for mechanical systems. Kane's method provides an efficient alternative to Lagrangian mechanics for analyzing multibody systems and is particularly useful for systems with constraints. This method is relevant for understanding the dynamics of complex mechanical systems like the golf swing.
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Golf Biomechanics - Dr. Kwon
Video playlist by Dr. Young-Hoo Kwon covering golf biomechanics, swing analysis, and scientific approaches to understanding golf swing mechanics. Dr. Kwon is a Professor of Kinesiology at Texas Woman's University and offers swing analysis services and certification programs in golf biomechanics at TWU's Biomechanics & Motor Behavior Laboratory.
Watch Playlist → (opens in a new tab) Visit Website → (opens in a new tab)Biomechanics of Movement
YouTube channel featuring multiple playlists on biomechanics of movement, covering fundamental principles and applications of biomechanical analysis. This channel provides educational content on movement mechanics, kinematics, kinetics, and their applications to understanding human motion and sports biomechanics, including golf swing mechanics.
View Channel Playlists → (opens in a new tab)Interesting Physics
Intermediate Axis Theorem (Secondary Axis Instability)
Demonstration of the intermediate axis theorem, also known as secondary axis instability or the tennis racket theorem. This fundamental principle of rigid body dynamics explains why rotation about the intermediate moment of inertia axis is unstable, which has important implications for understanding golf club dynamics and shaft behavior during the swing.
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A fascinating fluid dynamics demonstration showing how a dead fish can swim upstream due to vortex-induced motion. This phenomenon illustrates important principles of fluid-structure interactions and passive dynamics, which have relevance to understanding how objects move through fluids and how passive forces can drive motion in biomechanical systems.
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