EE594: Industrial Robotics and Automation

To give a practical oriented overview of the subject with strong foundation of the fundamentals, configurations, designs, costing, hardware and software tools of industrial robotics and automation.

NO. OF CREDITS: 3
COMPULSORY/OPTIONAL: OPTIONAL
PREREQUISITES: EE352 OR ME306

MAIN TOPICS AND INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

TOPICS

Industrial automation systems and applications of robotics

Rigid Motions and Homogeneous Transformations

Forward Kinematics/Inverse Kinematics

Velocity Kinematics

Path and Trajectory Planning Fundamentals

Fundamentals of Industrial Automation

Sensors, Actuators and Controllers

Communication systems in automation

Automation software and hardware

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS)

Student will be able to,

ILO1: Differentiate and describe various applications of industrial robot systems and industrial automation systems.

ILO2: Design, model and analyze robot manipulator systems and evaluate their performance in terms of their kinematics, kinetics, and control.

ILO3:Design, model and analyze automation systems and evaluate their performance in terms of their kinematics, kinetics, and control.

ILO4:Analyze and justify the benefits of robotic and automation systems and design.

ILO5: Program automation and robotic system hardware assigned for a specific task.

NO	RECOMMENDED TEXT
1	M. W. Spong, S. Hutchinson, M. Vidyasagar, Robot Modeling and Control
2	Roland Siegwart, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Davide Scaramuzza, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots
3	Terry Bartelt, Industrial Automated Systems: Instrumentation and Motion Control
4	K.L.S.Sharma, Overview of Industrial Process Automation

TIME ALLOCATION	HOURS
Lectures	34
Tutorials	5
Assignments	6
Laboratories	6

ASSESMENT	PERCENTAGE
Assignments	10
Laboratory Work	10
MID Semester Evaluation	30
END Semester Exam	50