Introduction to automation
Basic elements of an automated system, advanced automation functions, levels of automation, process industries versus discrete manufacturing industries, continuous versus discrete control, computer process control. Hardware components for automation and process control, sensors, actuators, analog to digital converters, digital to analog converters, input/output devices for discrete data
Automated production lines
Fundamentals of automated production lines, application of automated production lines, analysis of transfer lines, automated assembly systems, fundamentals of automated assembly systems, quantitative analysis of assembly systems, automatic identification methods, barcode technology, radio frequency identification, other AIDC technologies
Industrial Robotics
Robotic configuration, robot anatomy and related attributes, robot control systems, end effectors, sensors in robotics, industrial robot applications, robot accuracy and repeatability, different types of robotics, various generations of robots, degrees of freedom – Asimov’s laws of robotics dynamic stabilization of robots.
Spatial descriptions and transformations
Positions, orientations, and frames. Mappings: Changing descriptions from frame to frame. Operators: translations, rotations and transformations, transformation arithmetic transform equations, transformation of free vectors computational considerations, manipulator Kinematics, link description, link-connection description, actuator space joint space and Cartesian space
Robot programming
Introduction, levels of robot programming, requirements of robot programming language, problems pertaining to robot programming languages, offline programming systems, central issues in OLP systems, automating subtasks in OLP systems, simple programs on robot applications
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Automation, Production systems, and computer integrated manufacturing-MikellP.Groover 3rd edition, Pearson 2009
2. Industrial Robotics-Groover, Weiss, Nagel, McGraw Hill International, 2nd edition, 2012
REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Robotics for Engineers –YoramKoren, McGraw Hill International, 1st edition, 1985.
2. Robotic Engineering - An Integrated approach, Klafter, Chmielewski and Negin, PHI, 1st edition, 2009.
3. An Introduction to Automated Process Planning Systems- Tiess Chiu Chang & Richard A. Wysk