Study guides for Robotics Engineering with AI (BEng), Year 1, WMG, University of Warwick, written as I work through the course.
These aren’t lecture transcripts. Each guide takes one topic and explains it from scratch: the idea in plain English, a diagram, the formulas derived step by step, a worked example with fresh numbers, the usual mistakes, and a few questions to check yourself.
Modules
| Module | What it’s about | Block | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⚡ | WM1AD · Electrical Power and Motors | Circuits, power electronics and motors: getting energy into a robot | 1 |
| ⚙️ | WM1AC · Mechanisms and Machines | Kinematics and kinetics: how linkages, gears and bodies move | 1 |
| 🧭 | WM199 · Developing an Engineering Mindset | Professional practice: ethics, sustainability, risk and safety | 1 |
| 🛠️ | WM1AA · Rapid Prototyping | CAD, CAM, materials and making parts | 2 |
| 💻 | WM1AE · Programmable Electronics | Microcontrollers: software that drives hardware | 2 |
| 🧩 | WM1AF · Engineering Systems Design | Requirements, lifecycle models, modelling and simulation | 2 |
| 🤖 | WM1AB · Mechatronics Sprint Project | The team robot build and competition | 3 |
New to the course? Start with the course overview. Stuck on a symbol? Try the glossary.
Also here
| Section | What’s in it | |
|---|---|---|
| ✍️ | Practice questions | Test-style questions with hidden worked answers: WM1AD · WM1AC · WM199 |
| 🧮 | Tools | Using the scientific calculator and MATLAB |
| 🎓 | Accreditation and AHEP | How every module maps to the Engineering Council’s AHEP outcomes, and the route to IET accreditation and CEng |
| 🎯 | Careers and development | Spring weeks, internships, placements, applications, CV outline, CPD and skills templates |
Newest guides
- WM1AC Week 4: Forces and moments · Static equilibrium and free body diagrams · Friction and Newton’s second law · Centre of mass
- WM1AD Week 4: Electric motors and DC motor types · DC motor performance and selection · Stepper motors · Sizing a drive motor
- WM199 Week 4: Systems thinking · System architecture and lifecycle
- Updated: Week 4 practice questions, formula sheet rows and glossary terms for every Block 1 module
How to use these guides
- Read the idea first. If that makes sense, the maths will too.
- Cover the answer and try the worked example yourself.
- Do the Check yourself questions. The answers are hidden until you click.
- Use each module’s formula sheet for revision.
About these notes
Written with AI assistance and checked by me; see about. Lecture slides, Moodle files and datasheets belong to their owners and aren’t reproduced here. Worked examples use my own numbers, and nothing I’ve submitted for assessment is published.