Industrial Robots

Catalog description

In this course students will be introduced to the mathematical theory underlying multi-degree-of-freedom industrial robot systems including such topics as spatial descriptions and transformations, and manipulator kinematics including Denavit-Hartenberg notation. The course will also include an introduction to the topics of Industrial Automation and Machine Vision. The lab component of the course will take the students through a series of exercises that will introduce them to a 6-axis industrial robot (ABB IRB 140), the robot software systems, end-of-arm actuators, an industrial machine vision camera (COGNEX Insight 5400), and the camera-related software. A series of building-block exercises leading to the team-based final project will require the students to integrate the robot and camera systems to accomplish a specific task and will demonstrate the students' competence with these systems. Other robot types such as parallel axis robotic systems are introduced as well.