CHINHOYI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF ENEGINEERING SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY

MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

MODULE OUTLINE

School: SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY

Department: MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Module identity
Module title and code: INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS

Module level: 5.1

Module credits: 15 CREDITS
Date Module outline last updated: 25 February 2023
Prerequisites, (if any): Machine Mechanisms and Design
Module coordinator: ENG KELVIN CHIHOTA
Office location: E2, OLD ENGINEERING BLOCK
E-mail address: [email protected]
Cell number: 0779696372
Face to face lectures: 24 HOURS
Offline access the electronic material: HOURS (Students accessing material on
their own)
Tutorial hours: 12 HOURS
Industrial Related /Fieldwork hours: 6 HOURS
Practical/Laboratory work hours: 40 HOURS
Self-directed learning hours: 12 HOURS

Preamble

The course is designed to equip students with profound knowledge of Industrial Robotics
technologies that are applied within our industry or emerging at global level for
competitiveness. The advent of industry 4.0 is a dawn of New Era in the industrial
manufacturing set up. The inclusion of industrial robots in manufacturing has proved to be
handy in pushing the frontiers of technology. Mechatronic Engineers are required by the
dictates of the nature of the skills to possess knowledge of industrial robots in depth.

Laboratory: An exposure to application of Industrial Robots in a Robotics laboratory.

Module Objectives:

The objectives of this course are to:

- To master Industrial robotic technologies and their emerging trends

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- To analyse and apply techniques, theorems and philosophies employed in order to
optimise/automate the process segments
- To practice simulation and modelling in modern robotics technologies concerned
- To demonstrate ability to benchmark, improve, model and substitute manual material
handling for global competitiveness.

Expected Learning Outcomes:

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

1. Describe the use of industrial robots in manufacturing.
2. Describe industrial manipulators and their various anatomies
3. Describe actuators and sensors for industrial robots.
4. Demonstrate how to plan and assign a path and a trajectory to a robot.
5. Demonstrate proficiency in designing a robot for a particular use observing robot
statics and dynamics.

Delivery Methods:

Continuous Assessment will apply, including tests, tutorials, assignments fieldwork and
laboratory reports. A pass mark of 50% is required. The final exam will contribute 70% and
30% will be from continuous assessment. Overall the assessment includes the following:
1. In-class tests
2. Group design projects
3. Laboratory practical reports
4. End of Semester Examination

Detailed Content layout to include

Topics (outline) / Module content detailed with activities, assignments, tests, timing,
practical work/ lab work. (This information can be presented in tabular form as shown in the
table below).

Da Topics Content/concepts/detailed Methodolo Student activities Duratio

y gy n
employed time

1 Introductio  Robot Teaching,  Class room 6 hrs

n to classifications and in class attendance
Industrial Operations room  Reading provided
2 Robots  Classification material
Robots
 Resolution
3  Repeatability
 accuracy and
control

4 Technologi  Actuators and Teaching, Lecture 5 hrs

2
 es in transmission in class. attendance
systems
Automatio
5  Mechanisms
n and  Power supplies
6  Power storage
Robotics
systems
 Sensors (Internal
and External)
 Micro – Controllers
and processors
 Algorithms and
softwares
Robot
simulation
and
Programmin
g
7 Industrial  Links and Teaching,  Specially 10hrs
joints in designed labs
manipulato
 Robot classroom where students
rs and motion and student work forward
8 control labs Kinematics in
kinematics
 Frame groups
representati
ons,
transformati
ons (pure
translation,
rotation and
combination
s).
 Denavit-
Hartenberg
representati
ons
 Position and
orientation
analysis
 Forward
kinematics.
Inverse
kinematics.
Singularities
.

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9 Actuators  Electric Teaching,  Classroom 10hrs
 Hydraulic in the attendance
Drives classroom  Lab practical
10  Pneumatic Demonstrat hands on in
 Direct ionof groups
Current Actuators
(DC) in the lab
Servomotor
s

11 State  Internal Teaching  Students to work 5hrs

sensors state sensors in class and individually on
 External lab nsensors and
12 state sensors demonstrati embedded control
 image on of
acquisition interrocepti
13 ve and
exterocepti
ve sensors
14 Trajectory  Point to Point Circulation  Class 15hrs
Planning  Continuous Path of samples demonstrations of
 Intelligent Control of different advanced
trajectories concepts
15

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17 Robot  Inverse problem Lectures Development of 10 hrs
Dynamics  Velocity analysis and prototypes
18 and  Dynamic analysis tutorials
Control  Image processing
19  Futuristic Robotics

Assessment:

Intended Learning Topic(s) Assessment method(s)

outcome
1. Understanding of Robot metrics Classroom assignments and
Industrial robots Resolution reports from industrial visits
Reapetability
Accuaracy

2. Industrial manipulators Spherical Laboratory hands on using

and their related Polar robot anatomies and Personal
anatomies. Cylindrical computers.
SCARA
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3. Actuators and Sensors Electrical Practical exposure to Actuators
Hydraulic and sensors and labarory
Pneumatic reports.
Internal state sensors
External state sensors
4. Path and trajectory Path polynomials Students to develop path and
planning Voronoi trajectory models
Cell decomposition
Visibility methods
5. Statics and dynamics Robot statics Students to develop prototypes
Robot dynamics of robots balancing statics and
dynamics

References:

Introduction to Robotics, David Craig

Online material has been prepared for the course with voice notes included in powerpoint
presentations giving the student a virtual lecture environment.

Electronic documents in Microsoft Office Word covering the course content in detail tailor
made for the course.

There is a lot of information on the internet which include Youtube videos and online
textbooks.