Lectures:
1) Introductory lecture of the course, requirements for taking the course, history of robotics and introduction of basic concepts and definitions.
2) Introduction to industrial robotics, overview of the basic types of industrial robots and their manufacturers. List of application areas of industrial robots and description of specific peripherals for different technologies.
3) End effectors of industrial robots - Manufacturers of grippers and process heads. Important parameters for the design and selection of a suitable effector.
4) Workplace safety - Peripheral devices to ensure safe operation of the workplace, overview of standards related to safety of robotic workplaces.
5) Robotic process workstations, structure, important parameters for workstation design, basic workstation layout.
6) Sensors and machine vision - examples of sensor applications in industrial robotics, characteristics and applications of basic principles of sensors in robotics. Use of camera systems, machine vision and image exploitation.
7) Robot-human cooperation - cobots and their operation, possibilities and methods of robot-human cooperation according to standards. Human-machine interface and possibilities of mutual interaction and information transfer. Use of augmented and virtual reality.
8) Introduction to mobile robotics - areas of application of service and industrial mobile robots. Basic categorisation into groups according to the characteristics of mobile robots.
9) Mobile robots in industry - overview of manufacturers, types of chassis used in these robots, activities performed by industrial MRs, methods of navigation.
10) Logistics and warehousing - automated warehouses, inter-operational transport, methods of storage and preparation of materials and semi-finished products, warehouse management systems.
11) Mobile robots in everyday environments - tasks performed by robots in households, agriculture, military, services, special mobile robots.
12) Basic principles of navigation, motion planning, communication and control of mobile robots.
13) Prosthetics and intelligent devices for human rehabilitation and assistance.
Seminars:
1) Presentation of the assignment of individual projects, division of the group into project teams, preparation of the initial research for the project.
2-7) Work on project 1: Design of a robotic workplace.
8-13) Work on project 2: Design of a mobile robot.
1) Introductory lecture of the course, requirements for taking the course, history of robotics and introduction of basic concepts and definitions.
2) Introduction to industrial robotics, overview of the basic types of industrial robots and their manufacturers. List of application areas of industrial robots and description of specific peripherals for different technologies.
3) End effectors of industrial robots - Manufacturers of grippers and process heads. Important parameters for the design and selection of a suitable effector.
4) Workplace safety - Peripheral devices to ensure safe operation of the workplace, overview of standards related to safety of robotic workplaces.
5) Robotic process workstations, structure, important parameters for workstation design, basic workstation layout.
6) Sensors and machine vision - examples of sensor applications in industrial robotics, characteristics and applications of basic principles of sensors in robotics. Use of camera systems, machine vision and image exploitation.
7) Robot-human cooperation - cobots and their operation, possibilities and methods of robot-human cooperation according to standards. Human-machine interface and possibilities of mutual interaction and information transfer. Use of augmented and virtual reality.
8) Introduction to mobile robotics - areas of application of service and industrial mobile robots. Basic categorisation into groups according to the characteristics of mobile robots.
9) Mobile robots in industry - overview of manufacturers, types of chassis used in these robots, activities performed by industrial MRs, methods of navigation.
10) Logistics and warehousing - automated warehouses, inter-operational transport, methods of storage and preparation of materials and semi-finished products, warehouse management systems.
11) Mobile robots in everyday environments - tasks performed by robots in households, agriculture, military, services, special mobile robots.
12) Basic principles of navigation, motion planning, communication and control of mobile robots.
13) Prosthetics and intelligent devices for human rehabilitation and assistance.
Seminars:
1) Presentation of the assignment of individual projects, division of the group into project teams, preparation of the initial research for the project.
2-7) Work on project 1: Design of a robotic workplace.
8-13) Work on project 2: Design of a mobile robot.