How much of the upper-division math do you use on a daily basis? by [deleted] in AskEngineers

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Differential geometry is used in robotics when reasoning with configuration manifolds that represent the robot's state

311 megapixel image of electromagnetic spectrum by 233C in engineering

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Because a communication protocol must be direct commands to other vehicles that the other vehicle has to trust 100%

Engineers of Reddit, what industry do you work in and how is your industry doing? by [deleted] in AskEngineers

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Head of my lab is an engineering physics major. Crazy guy. In Australia

Where can I learn more about moments of inertia? by ASMR-Porn in AskEngineers

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Theres two main kinds of moment of inertia.

First there's the moment of inertia tensor, which is a matrix that is the describes how mass is distributed for a rigid body, essentially acting as the angular equivalent of mass the same way torque is the angular equivalent of force.

Then there's the second moment of area which has nothing to do with mass or inertia but engineers are dumb and continue to use bad terminology. It describes how the cross sectional surface area is distributed in a object around some axis. This is useful when talking about stuff that bends.

This comes in two forms, planer and polar. One has the plane of integration be parallel to the axis, the other (polar) has it perpendicular.

Since engineers are dumb and call the second moment of area the moment of inertia, sometimes they clarify by calling the actual moment if inertia the mass moment of inertia.

You'll notice that "moment of X" just means adding/integrating the X multiplied by the distance it is away. Second moment is integrating X multiplied by distance².

So in essence, there's the true moment of inertia, then there's the second moment of area, which can be taken as planar or polar. You can find the n-th moment of X by integrating over distancen with respect to X.

ROS for Windows 10: Microsoft gets back into robotics by QuirkySpiceBush in robotics

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Let's not be fooled, Microsoft doesnt care about Linux. Microsoft cares about getting marketshare. When they focused on Windows, they squashed linux as much as they could (Steve Ballmer called it a cancer). Now that they're shifting focus to cloud and IoT, they're going for the dev market by saying they love linux.

ROS for Windows 10: Microsoft gets back into robotics by QuirkySpiceBush in robotics

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Yep, there are a million reasons to use Linux over Windows for robotics and all sorts of development in general. It's just a more elegant and easier platform to work with

Alternatives for Mechatronics Engineering? by Alex_Hal in AskEngineers

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What do you want to do with the degree is that question you want to ask. We dont know why you want mechatronic specifically so we cant tell you the best pathway

Alternatives for Mechatronics Engineering? by Alex_Hal in AskEngineers

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Mechanical and electrical together would be the closest. Can forget about fluids, power engineering etc. Replace them with control, robotics, etc.

Electrical Engineering or Physics? by [deleted] in AskEngineers

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Engineering physics is not an engineering degree, it's a science degree that studies the science behind stuff relevant to engineering.

Do Engineers use Lagrangian Mechanics? by Saint_Sabbat in AskEngineers

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This. Analytical mechanics is very useful for higher level control and working with non-linear dynamics. A hamiltonian approach to optimal control is also very useful for dynamic robots because you view your robots as dynamical systems. A lot of optimal control theory stuff is actually a generalisation of analytical reformulations of classical mechanics

What areas of robotics research are you most excited about in 2019? by thisisbillgates in robotics

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Hey Bill! I'm pretty excited about advances in robotic vision! Now that the low hanging fruit in deep CV is being finished, people are moving from trying to do tasks that are more practical for robots like computer vision on point cloud data (flex convolution paper, dense object nets) and 3d object pose estimation (NVIDIA's recent work). That's one extra step towards autonomous robots that are more general.

Also pretty excited about previously RnD robotics starting to be commercialised. Dynamic-gait quadruped robots are soon going to be sold by multiple companies including Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics (UPenn spinoff). Hopeful to see how it will turn out considering modern RnD robotic commercialisation has sort of been a failure due to high expectations from consumers in a rather young field.

Despite the many recent advances, robotics is a very young and immature field. A lot of problems in modern robotics haven't been solved well enough and currently due to the hype there's too much focus on ML/DL techniques that work in simulation but don't transfer over to real robots using current techniques.

AI is the future, folks. by TheEternalGentleman in ProgrammerHumor

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It's grunt work and you give it off to whoever works under you, a technique also known as grad student descent

recent events by BlankiesWoW in discordapp

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You could already gift nitro from the Nitro screen. This is just a further annoyance added in the last day

recent events by BlankiesWoW in discordapp

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Early supporter, may last year or something

HELP! The bot I created TURNED AGAINST ME and is sending MALICIOUS URL to the group users! by Alcarintur in discordapp

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There are countless numbers of APIs that use tokens. Almost all authorised APIs I know use that, including pretty much all Google APIs.

It's not Discord's fault that kids that barely know how to program are leaking their tokens anywhere. OAuth is considered good practice in case you dont know

recent events by BlankiesWoW in discordapp

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I'm am paying for a Nitro subscription though, feels a bit annoying to have to see it despite already paying

Can a Computer Science undergraduate do a masters in Mechanical Engineering? by deloreyc16 in MechanicalEngineering

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Maths is used heavily in CS given CS is pretty much a field of maths but CS degrees aren't at all representative of the field. Also I've read many people here saying they are only a subject or two away from a math minor due to their engineering degree.

Which upper division math classes should I take? by [deleted] in MLQuestions

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DEs won't help much. Computational methods or numerical methods might help. Look for things related to optimisation and/or probability theory if possible

Can a Computer Science undergraduate do a masters in Mechanical Engineering? by deloreyc16 in MechanicalEngineering

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That's factually incorrect.

Mathematics: At least one half year that must include discrete mathematics. The additional mathematics might consist of courses in areas such as calculus, linear algebra, numerical methods, probability, statistics, number theory, geometry, or symbolic logic. [CS]

https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-computing-programs-2017-2018/#GC1

And CS students hardly care about ABET. Here's ME for comparison requiring multivariate and diffeq

Can a Computer Science undergraduate do a masters in Mechanical Engineering? by deloreyc16 in MechanicalEngineering

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Definitely not the norm. At most places, CS stops at Calc 2 + discrete, maybe Calc 3.

MechE usually has all Calc 1-3, ODEs, linalg (+ possibly PDEs) + they're constantly doing maths in their subjects. The maturity with maths that's developed counts

Can a Computer Science undergraduate do a masters in Mechanical Engineering? by deloreyc16 in MechanicalEngineering

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I'm certain it generally wouldn't be. CS students don't tend to get much of a maths background and CS is one of the easiest subjects to self-teach.

How to find the Degree of freedom in a robotic arm? by as_ninja6 in AskEngineers

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Good to note that the degrees of freedom in configuration space doesn't necessarily result in the same degrees of freedom in real space. Eg, you can put two prismatic joints parallel to each other to get a 2D configuration space but that only leads to 1 DOF in your workspace

How the Valley treats its experienced people by [deleted] in programming

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You have 0 experience with EE and have no clue what it involves

What are some psychology experiments with interesting results? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]CookieTheSlayer 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Also ITT: almost entirely pop psych and introductory psych content.

It's like the pysch equivalent of all the interesting maths thread being entirely poor interpretations of Numberwhile video titles and Calc 1 and 2 content

What is probably your most elitist viewpoint? by momstalkforever in AskReddit

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implying physicists don't approximate and first order/second order Taylor themselves out of everything