Syllabus

Introduction to Mechatronics System, mechatronics in manufacturing, product and design, Measurement Systems, Control System, comparison between traditional and mechatronics approach. Sensors and Transducers: Introduction, Performance terminology, Displacement, Position and Proximity, Velocity and motion, Fluid pressure, Temperature sensors, Light sensors, Selection of sensors. Actuation system in mechatronics and robotics, Mechanical Actuation System, Processors/Controllers: Microprocessor systems, Microcontrollers, applications. Programmable Logic Controllers: Basic PLC structure, Input/output processing, Sequencing, Timers and counters, Shift registers, Master and jump controls, Code conversion, Data handling, selection of PLC, Data Acquisition- A/D and D/A. Design of Mechatronics systems
Introduction to robotics, Kinematics of Robots: 2D, 3D Transformation, Scaling, Rotation, Translation, Homogeneous coordinates, multiple transformation, Simple problems. Matrix representation, Forward and Reverse Kinematics of Three Degree of Freedom, Homogeneous Transformations, Inverse kinematics of Robot, D-H representation of robots, Basics of Trajectory Planning.

• Awareness on sensors, actuators and control system components that are used for developing automated parts.

The course is designed to help students to achieve the following outcomes
• Awareness on sensors, actuators and control system components that are used for developing automated parts.
• Basic knowledge on design of simple Mechatronics products even for micro level operations and gain knowledge regarding the robotics

• W. Bolton, Mechatronics, Electronic Control Systems in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Pearson Education

• J.J Craig, Introduction to Robotics- mechanics and control, Addison- Wesley

Fugonzalez and lee, Robotics: Control Sensing, Tata McGraw-Hill

S K Saha, Introduction to robotics, Tata McGraw-Hill

Ergonomics in Design, Applied Ergonomics

International Conference on Research into Design