Rationale
This unit covers basically the use of industrial robots, taking into account the automotive industry as the cradle of robotics. Therefore, students will learn first about robot applications in the automotive industry, i.e. in painting, welding, cutting, assembly and inspection, but also about human-robot applications and interactions, and about the new applications of robotics in the automated production environment. This unit will also provide students with the skills for assembly tasks with a human in the loop, the placement of robot tables, adapters, and holders for increasing efficiency, remote control and programming. Students will also be able to understand the design of robot equipment for integration in a robotic environment, the networking of robots for cooperative operations, as well as some specific issues such as image processing for robot guidance and safety, sense of touch for precise assembly and safety. Finally, students will learn robot programming in CAD-CAM environment, the analysis of trajectories, torque, singularity conditions, robot tables programming and integration in robot controller, how to use sensors on holders and adapters for assembly and welding, and how to apply typical HMI for manual handling of a robot.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this unit students will:
1. Be able to implement the torque vectoring mode of a 2 DOF robot system;
2. Be able to compensate unknown gravity load; be able to program a robot in a virtual environment;
3. be able to analyse robot motion parameters in a virtual environment and deploy the code to the robot.
Academic Calendar
https://moodle.mcast.edu.mt/mod/resource/view.php?id=75064
Unit Lecturer
Ing. Clive Seguna
