The four samples
Each card links to the annotated page for that assignment, where two or three passages are quoted and the reasoning behind them written out.
Industrial Automation
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Integrating Industrial Robots and IEC 61131-3 PLC Control in Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Cells
A 2,317-word MSc technical report on PLC–robot integration that refuses the easy conclusion about collaborative robotics. Three annotated extracts show how to qualify an industry claim with evidence rather than enthusiasm.
- Bounds the fashionable claim instead of repeating it
- Cites Stuxnet for the mechanism it proved, not its fame
- Ends in a committed design, not a summary
Applied AI
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation: Algorithms, Sim-to-Real Transfer and Safe Deployment
A 2,181-word MSc critical literature review that organises the field around one unsolved problem rather than by chronology. Three annotated extracts show the difference between reviewing a literature and listing it.
- Organised by open problem rather than by paper
- Names the hidden engineering judgement in domain randomisation
- Treats safety as structural to RL, not an ethics footnote
Machine Learning
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Convolutional Neural Networks versus Vision Transformers for Object Detection in Mobile Robot Perception
A 2,097-word MSc essay that compares two architectures and then questions whether the benchmark everyone cites means anything for a robot. Three annotated extracts show how to interrogate your own evidence base.
- Questions whether its own benchmark measures the right thing
- Converts 100 ms of latency into 15 cm of travel
- Comparison table whose first row explains the others
Control Engineering
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State-Space Modelling and Linear Quadratic Regulator Design for an Inverted Pendulum on a Cart
A 2,255-word MSc design report on the classic inverted pendulum that explains why the textbook problem resists the textbook controller. Three annotated extracts show how to justify a design choice rather than assert it.
- Shows PID's limit here is architectural, not a tuning failure
- Spends an earlier result to license a later design choice
- Gives every mathematical result its physical meaning