ECE311 Robotics and Automation L T P C

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Version No.: 1.10
Prerequisite: ECE210 Control Systems Engineering
Objectives:
This course presents an overview of robotics in practice and research with topics including
vision, motion planning, mobile mechanisms, kinematics, inverse kinematics, and sensors.
Expected Outcome:
1. Student can learn control problems in robots like trajectory control, Actuator etc.,
2. Able to design a robot and it will work in any environment like undersea, space and earth
3. Able to present a model in robot competitions and can also able to present a paper in IEEE
journals
4. Ability to apply the ideas for mechatronics & automobile systems
5. Ability to contribute their ideas to Industry & Research

Unit I Drives and Control 10 hours

Robots Basic-components classification performance characteristics - Drives and control
system - electric hydraulic and pneumatic actuators - control loops using current amplifier and
voltage amplifiers. .
Unit II Sensors and Vision Systems 8 hours
Transducers and sensors Tactile sensors - Proximity and range sensors - Acoustic sensors -
vision systems - image processing and analysis - image data reduction segmentation - feature
extraction - object recognition.
Unit III Robot arm Kinematics and Dynamics 10 hours
Kinematics of manipulators, rotational, translation and transformation, Homogeneous
transformations Denavat Hartenberg Representation, Inverse Kinematics. Linearization of
Robot Dynamics State variable continuous and discrete models.
Unit IV Motion Planning and Programming 10 hours
Robotic Motion: Different types of trajectories and introduction to their generation. Position
Control: Independent joint control. Trajectory planning and avoidance of obstacles Robot
programming, languages and software packages.
Unit V Robot Applications 7 hours
Industrial robots for welding, painting and assembly - remote Controlled robots - Robots for
nuclear thermal and chemical plants - Industrial automation - Typical example of automated
industries.
Textbooks:
1. Mikell P. Groover, Industrial Robotics, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishers.
2. John J. Craig, Introduction to Robotics, Mechanics and Control, Addison Wesley
Publishing Company.
Reference Books
1. M.W. Spong and M. Vidyasagar, Robot Dynamics and Control, John Wiley & Sons, New
York.
2. A.J. Koivo, Fundamentals for Control of Robotic Manipulators, John Wiley & Sons, New
York.
3. Yoren Koren, Robotics for Engineers, McGraw Hill Book Co.

Mode of Evaluation: CAT- I & II, Quizzes, Assignments/ other tests, Term End
Examination. Recommended for PBL.

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