FUNDAMENTALS OF ROBOTICS

Course Code: EA 4102 • Study year: IV • Academic Year: 2024-2025
Domain: Electronic engineering and telecommunications • Field of study: Applied Electronics
Type of course: Compulsory
Language of instruction: English
Erasmus Language of instruction: English
Name of lecturer: Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea
Seminar tutor: Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea
Form of education Full-time
Form of instruction: Class
Number of teaching hours per semester: 42
Number of teaching hours per week: 3
Semester: Autumn
Form of receiving a credit for a course: Grade
Number of ECTS credits allocated 4

Course aims:

• Solving technological problems in the fields of electronics applied.
• The principles and methods underlying the manufacture, tuning, testing and servicing of appliances and equipment in the fields of applied electronics.
• Explanation and interpretation of production processes and maintenance activities of electronic devices, identifying areas for testing and measuring electrical quantities.
• Application of management principles for the organization of technologically production activities, mining and service in the fields of applied electronics.
• Using criteria and methods for evaluating the quality of production and service activities in the fields of applied electronics.

Course Entry Requirements:

• Proper description paradigm programming language and specific mechanisms and identifying the difference between semantic and syntactic aspects of order.• Develop appropriate source code and unit testing of components .

Course contents:

1. Industrial Robots - Definitions, characteristics and classification parameters robots - Robots in industrial processes - The characteristics of the main types of industrial robots 2. Kinematic and dynamic geometric patterns - Coordinate Systems - Kinematic Models - Position Control - Control differential kinematic - Dynamic Model 3. Structure of industrial robots - Main subassembly to achieve rotation around a vertical axis Oz - Guidance system - Device grip - Information systems of industrial robots - Principles and methods of measurement sensors and transducers - Sensors and transducers travel - Sensors and transducers - Sensors and transducers moment - Constructive solutions for the location of sensors and transducers systems 4. Operators - Hydraulic drive - Electric - Pneumatic 5. The motion control systems - Election issue - System performance adjustment - The analysis of the typical mechanical configuration of the adjustment - Management Systems laws regulating complex - Compensation disruptive direct effect of lower elements - The design of the control system by means of frequency 6. Control Systems - Wired logic - Logic flexible - With automatic - Multiprocessor 7. Information Processing Systems - Processing System - The processing of information for recognizing parts

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Learning outcomes:

• This discipline is dedicated to knowledge of architecture, industrial and non-industrial applications and programming of robots. • Information on the application of robots in various fields, industrial (exploration, healthcare ....). • Presentation of industrial robots: constructive elements, cinematic. • Knowing the parameters of the industrial robots. • Developing practical knowledge of computer methods to analyze and program robots. • Understanding data sheets, commercial leaflets showing industrial robots. • Knowledge of accessories available industrial robots ability to configure inputs / outputs .

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 70%; continuous assessment – 30%.

Recommended reading:

Jorge Angeles, Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems: Theory, Methods, and Algorithms, Springer, ISBN 0-387-95368-X, 272.
David Ardayfio, -Fundamentals of Robotics, CRC Press, 1987, 448.
Min Xie, -Fundamentals of Robotics: Linking Perception to Action, World Scientific,, 2003, 692.
Alan A. Desrochers, Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration, Springer Science & Business Media, 1992, 345.