BME047A – ROBOTICS: MECHANICS AND CONTROL

UNIT I REASONS FOR AUTOMATION: Reasons for Automation: Strategies of

Automation, Detroit type of Automation, Flow lines, Transform Mechanisms, work part
transfer, Different Methods, Problems. Automation for machining operations design &
Fabrication consideration, machining center, center.
UNIT II ANALYSIS OF AUTOMATED FLOW LINES: Analysis of transfer lines without
storage-with storage buffers Single stage, Double stage, multistage with problems, Automated
assembly systems-Design for Automated assembly parts feedings devices-analysis of Multi-
station assembly machine, Analysis of Single stage Assembly Machine, Automated inspection-
principles and methods, sensors, coordinate, measuring machine, machine vision system,
optical inspection method.
UNIT III AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING STORAGE: Material handling
function, types of material handling Equipment, analysis of material handling systems, Design
of systems, Conveyor systems, Automated guided vehicle systems, Automated storage/Revival
systems. Caroused storage systems work in process storage, interfacing handling & storage
with manufacturing.
UNIT IV INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS: Robot configurations - Types of Robot drives
- Basic robot motions - Point to point control - Continuous path control COMPONENTS AND
OPERATIONS: Basic control system concepts - control system analysis - robot actuation and
fed back, Manipulators – director and inverse kinematics, Coordinate transformation - Brief
Robot dynamics. Types of Robot and effectors - Grippers - Tools as end effectors - Robot/End
- effort interface.
Unit V ROBOT PROGRAMMING Methods - languages - Capabilities and limitation -
Artificial intelligence - Knowledge representation – Search techniques - A1 and Robotics
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
Application of robots in machining - Welding - Assembly - Material handling - Loading and
unloading - CIM - Hostile and remote environments.

References
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3. P.Radhakrishnan and S.Subramanian, “CAD/CAM/CIM ", Wiley Eastern Limited,
1994.
4. GIDEON HALEVI and ROLAND D.WEILL, “Principles of process planning ",
Chapman Hall, 1995.
5. Koren Yoram, “Robotics for Engineers”, McGraw Hill