Robotics and Automation (ME6L013)
Pre-Requisites: None
CORE
L – T – P – C
3 – 0 – 0 – 3
Introduction to robots, Internal and external sensors, actuators: hydraulic, pneumatic and electric actuators, programming of robots.
Homogeneous transformations, D-H parameter notation, direct & inverse kinematics of manipulators: examples of kinematics of some common manipulator configurations.
Jacobian, dynamics of manipulators: L-E formulation, N-E formulation, trajectory planning. Automation, types of automation, analysis of automated assembly systems, line balancing problems, analysis of automated material handling systems, automated storage and retrieval systems

Recommended Books:
  1. Robotics: Fundamental concepts and analysis, A. Ghosal, Oxford university press
  2.  Industrial Robotics / Groover M P /Pearson Edu.
  3.  Robotics and Control / Mittal R K &Nagrath I J / TMH.
  4.  Robotics: Control, sensing, vision and intelligence, Fu, K., Gonzalez, R. and Lee, C. S. G McGraw Hill.
  5.  Robotic Engineering / Richard D. Klafter,
  6.  Introduction to Robotics / John J Craig / Pearson Edu. Prentice Hall
  7. Robot Dynamics & Control – Mark W. Spong and M. Vidyasagar / John Wiley & Sons (ASIA) Pte Ltd.
  8. Automation, Production systems and Computer Intigrated Manufacturing – M P Groover, Prentice Hall India.