18ME732 Automation and Robotics syllabus for ME

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 robots, various generations of robots, degrees of freedom – Asimov’s laws of robotics, dynamic stabilization of robots.

Spatial descriptions and transformations:

Robot actuators and Feedback components: Actuators: Pneumatic, Hydraulic actuators, electric & stepper motors, comparison. Position sensors –potentiometers, resolvers, encoders –Velocity sensors, Tactile sensors, Proximity sensors. Manipulator Kinematics: Homogeneous transformations as applicable to rotation and translation -D-H notation, Forward and inverse kinematics.

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.

Course Outcomes:

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

CO1: Translate and simulate a real time activity using modern tools and discuss the Benefits of automation.

CO2: Identify suitable automation hardware for the given application.

CO3: Recommend appropriate modelling and simulation tool for the given manufacturing Application.

CO4: Explain the basic principles of Robotic technology, configurations, control and Programming of Robots.

CO5: Explain the basic principles of programming and apply it for typical Pick & place, Loading & unloading and palletizing applications

Question paper pattern:

• The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
• Each full question will be for 20 marks.
• There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
• Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Textbook/s

1 Computer Integrated Manufacturing Mikell P. Groover Pearson 3rd edition, 2009

2 Introduction to robotics mechanics and control John J. Craig Pearson 3rd edition, 2009

Reference Books

1 Robotics for Engineers Yoram Koren McGraw Hill International 1st edition, 1985.

2 Industrial Robotics Weiss, Nagel McGraw Hill International 2nd edition, 2012

3 Robotic Engineering - An Integrated approach Klafter, Chmielewski and Negin PHI 1st edition, 2009

4 Computer Based Industrial Control Krishna Kant EEE-PHI 2nd edition,2010

5 An Introduction to Automated Process Planning System Tiess Chiu Chang & Richard A. Wysk