Course: Automatization and Robotics in Mechanical Engineering

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Course title Automatization and Robotics in Mechanical Engineering
Course code KSR/ARS
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Hotař Vlastimil, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
  • Matúšek Ondřej, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Stará Marie, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Automation trends in a production. 2. Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, Artificial intelligence, 3D Print,? 3. Industrial robots and handlers, statistics of robotic applications. 4. Workspaces, positioning accuracy, object orientation. 5. Drive overview for automation. Pneumatic drives for purpose handlers. 6. Electric drives and their properties. 7. Effectors and robot periphery. 8. Grippers and technological heads. 9. Overview, principles and application of sensors in automatic production lines. 10. Sensors for visualisation of technological scene. Inverse feedback in automation. 11. Basic principles of robot vision, bin-picking. 12. Analysis of application fields for industrial robots. 13. Overview and characteristics of mobile and service robots. 14. Trends in collaborative robot application. 1. Industrial robot mechanism structures, types of structures. 2. Wrist and positioning system, working area. 3. Design of motion units. 4. Pneumatic drives (laboratory). 5. Basics of electro-pneumatic drives (laboratory). 6. Electric drives (laboratory). 7. PLC programming (laboratory). 8. Test. Off-line robot programming. 9. Robot programming (laboratory). 10. Grippers with pneumatic and electric drives (laboratory). 11. Function and characteristics of sensors (laboratory). 12. Demonstration of camera systems for industrial application. 13. Camera interface and parametrization, application and robot vision (laboratory). 14. Typical applications of RTP and FMS. Credit.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing), Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Lecture
  • Preparation for exam - 56 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Subject presents an overview of automatic production trends and in detail characterizes current tools of automation. The accent is put on automatic manipulation and robot application; the subject clarifies basic function principles, also presents overview of approaches in a design of automatic robotized workplaces with advanced sensors. Fields of application and innovative potential of industrial and service robots are in detail analysed.
The student will gain comprehensive knowledge of the automation of machine production, application of industrial robots and robotic technological workplaces with advanced sensors.
Prerequisites
Not required.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Test

Credit: 80% attendance, successful test passing. Exam: Oral, or written - prove of subject knowledge, acquired credit is a prerequisite.
Recommended literature
  • Croser, P. - Ebel, F. Pneumatics - Basic Level. Denkendorf: Festo Didactic 2002.
  • Hotař, V. Úvod do problematiky strojového vidění. Liberec: Technická univerzita, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7494-156-6..
  • Kolíbal, Z. Roboty a robotizované výrobní technologie. Brno: Vysoké učení technické v Brně. ISBN 978-80-214-4828-5..
  • Lorenzo Sciavicco and Bruno Siciliano. Modelling and control of robot manipulators. Springer Verlag. ISBN 1-85233-221.
  • Monkman, G. J. Robot Grippers. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2007. ISBN 978-3-527-40619-7..
  • NOVOTNÝ, F. - HORÁK, M. Efektory průmyslových robotů, Skriptum TU V Liberci, 2015, 116 s..
  • NOVOTNÝ, F. - HORÁK, M. Konstrukce robotů, Skriptum TU V Liberci, 2015, 236 s..
  • Novotný, F., V Hotař, M. Horák, M. Stará a M. Starý. Úvod do automatizace a robotizace ve strojírenství [online]. Liberec: Technická univerzita v Liberci, 2020 [cit. 2021-10-19]. ISBN 978-80-7494-.


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