CE00453-7 Robotics and Automation

Robot manipulators are numerous in industry and found in a variety of applications. This module will explain exactly how they work, how to program them, their interfacing with industrial controllers and how they will be improved in the future. Topics will range from motor control using PLC's and what PID really is, through to the advanced topics of vision and current research.

Overview of industrial robot arms and how to program them
Overview of PLCs and how they interface to robots and automatic processes
Digital implementation of PID control
Forward kinematics using D-H matrices
Inverse kinematics
The Jacobean matrix and its use in force and speed determination
Trajectory control
Introduction to vision
Current advances in robotics