Manipulation Tasks in Robotics Education**This paper is supported by Government of Russian Federation (GOSZADANIE 2014/190 (project 2118))

In this paper a series of practical tasks on control for manipulators is presented. This series represents a laboratory part of the course "Control Methods for Robotic Applications" included in the curriculum of the master’s degree program at the Department of Control Systems and Informatics of ITMO University. The exercises are aimed to attract and motivate students, improve their practical competency and simplify their understanding of theoretical background. The tasks are focused on such problems as path and trajectory planning, automatic code generation and design of a tracking system for moving target.