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Robots and Manipulators

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Course Unit Code354-0503/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
MIH03doc. Ing. Milan Mihola, Ph.D.
BOB0001prof. Ing. Zdenko Bobovský, PhD.
Summary
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The goal is the formation of professional
graduate profile, which will work as a designer of mechatronic
systems. In addition to the ability of analysis, evaluation, application of knowledge to design robots and other complex mechatronic systems.
Course Contents
1. Introduction, current status, trends and robotics, classification, subsystems and their development. Moving Units manipulators
robotů. Mechanics of robots. Engines, design, control.
2. Transmission systems in rotics. Design and calculations, design and
problems. Planetary, Harmonic gears. Pantographs. Applications in Action
subsystem.
3. Design, calculation and solving Guidance system.
4. Balancing and balancing subsystems.
5. Design drives, drives the conceptual design.
6. Structural design calculations and movement of units and their elements.
7. Effectors - design, trends, calculations.
8. Principles and methodology for calculating the elements of action in terms of critical subsystem parameters.
9. Methodology and preliminary design tools RAM
10. Modular robot - design, strength calculation, estimation accuracy and rigidity
11. Serial and parallel robot design, analysis, comparison, specific procedures.
12. Service robots - differential design solutions, requirements and design
approaches, as opposed to industrial robots.
13.Produced types of industrial and service robots, serial, parallel, Special - applications and analysis of parameters, characteristics and problems.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
RIVIN, E. I.: Mechanical design of robots.New York, McGraw-Hill Book
Company, 1988.
Angeles, J.: Fundamentals of Robotic, Mechanical systems, Second Edition,
Springer, 2002, [ISBN 0-387 – 95368 - X] 513 p.
Lung-Wen Tsai: Robot Analysis, John Wiley § Sons, 1999, [ISBN 0-471 –
32593 - 7] 497 str.
Skařupa,J. Roboty a manipulátory I.(skriptum), 2002, Ostrava: VŠB-TU
Ostrava, s.139, ISBN 80-248-0044-6.
Recommended Reading:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRA4sD_3xu0
http://modlabupenn.org/smores/
Skařupa,J. Roboty a manipulátory I.(skriptum), 2002, Ostrava: VŠB-TU
Ostrava, s.139, ISBN 80-248-0044-6.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Project work, Other activities
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Exercises evaluation and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        Exercises evaluationCredit35 15
        ExaminationExamination65 36