Code No: RR322202 Set No.

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III B.Tech II Semester Supplimentary Examinations, Aug/Sep 2007
ROBOTICS AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
(Instrumentation & Control Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) Discuss the relative advantages and limitation of various generations of robots.
(b) What is meant by a manipulator having redundant degrees of freedom and its
advantages? [8+8]

2. (a) Compare and contrast performance characteristics of Hydraulic, pneumatic

and mechanical drives used in Robots.
(b) Discuss various types of encoders used for robots. [8+8]

3. (a) What are the various elements in a robot machine vision? Explain.
(b) What is robot software? Discuss the software elements of robot and different
teaching methods of robot. [8+8]

4. (a) What are the embedded computer systems? What are it’s application?
(b) Explain the characteristics of embedded computers algorithms. [8+8]

5. (a) Draw and explain the CPU architecture of ARM processor?

(b) Give the overview of the memory organization in ARM processors? [8+8]

6. (a) Explain the functionality of memory management unit (MMU)?

(b) List different types of memories? Write briefly about each type? [8+8]

7. (a) Write a CDFG for a “while” loop?

(b) Explain the concept of code compression? [8+8]

8. (a) Draw the state diagram of process states and explain?

(b) Illustrate with an example shared memory concept of inter process communi-
cation system. [8+8]

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Code No: RR322202 Set No. 2
III B.Tech II Semester Supplimentary Examinations, Aug/Sep 2007
ROBOTICS AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
(Instrumentation & Control Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. With the help of line diagram explain basic components of a Robot system. [16]

2. (a) Explain the characteristics of various mechanical drives used for the robots.
(b) What are the different types of actuators used for robots? Explain the working
of a hydraulic actuator system. [8+8]

3. (a) Discuss the various interface hardware and software used in the machine vision.
(b) Explain the various capabilities and limitations of the robot languages. [8+8]

4. (a) What are various steps in the design process of embedded system? Explain in
detail with a flow chart.
(b) Write about process model for developing embedded system. [8+8]

5. (a) Draw and explain the CPU architecture of ARM processor?

(b) Give the overview of the memory organization in ARM processors? [8+8]

6. (a) Explain the functionality of memory management unit (MMU)?

(b) List different types of memories? Write briefly about each type? [8+8]

7. (a) Write a CDFG for a “while” loop?

(b) Explain the concept of code compression? [8+8]

8. (a) Draw the state diagram of process states and explain?

(b) Illustrate with an example shared memory concept of inter process communi-
cation system. [8+8]

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Code No: RR322202 Set No. 3
III B.Tech II Semester Supplimentary Examinations, Aug/Sep 2007
ROBOTICS AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
(Instrumentation & Control Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆

1. (a) Discuss the relative advantages and limitation of various generations of robots.
(b) What is meant by a manipulator having redundant degrees of freedom and its
advantages? [8+8]

2. (a) Enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of hydraulic drives over pneu-
matic drives.
(b) Enumerate the differences between ac servomotors with dc servomotors as
robot drives. [8+8]

3. What is robot vision? What are the types of vision sensors used to take the image
of an object? Explain them briefly. Enumerate their advantages and limitations.
[16]

4. (a) What is an embedded system? What are it’s applications?

(b) Explain in detail about Digital camera system. [8+8]

5. (a) List out various addressing modes in SHARC processor.

(b) Write SHARC assembly code for the following
for(i=0;i<20;i++)
z[i]=0;
for(i=0;i<20;i++)
for(j=0;j<20;j++)
z[i]=a[i,j]*b[i]; [8+8]

6. (a) Explain the functionality of memory management unit (MMU)?

(b) List different types of memories? Write briefly about each type? [8+8]

7. (a) Compare standard dataflow graph and CDFG with an example?

(b) Write a CDFG for a “for” loop? [8+8]

8. Describe briefly various scheduling algorithms and multi tasking methods? [16]

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Code No: RR322202 Set No. 4
III B.Tech II Semester Supplimentary Examinations, Aug/Sep 2007
ROBOTICS AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
(Instrumentation & Control Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. Discuss critically degrees of freedom applied to Robots and mention degrees of

freedom for various industrial Robots. [16]

2. (a) Compare and contrast performance characteristics of Hydraulic, pneumatic

and mechanical drives used in Robots.
(b) Discuss various types of encoders used for robots. [8+8]

3. (a) Explain the various functions of machine vision system.

(b) Distinguish between tactile and non tactile sensors? Explain examples of each
type. [8+8]

4. (a) What are different categories of embedded systems?

(b) List and explain briefly about each category application. [8+8]

5. (a) List out various addressing modes in SHRAC processor?

(b) List out various instructions formats for SHRAC processor? [8+8]

6. (a) Explain the functionality of memory management unit (MMU)?

(b) List different types of memories? Write briefly about each type? [8+8]

7. (a) Compare standard dataflow graph and CDFG with an example?

(b) Write a CDFG for a “for” loop? [8+8]

8. Write short notes on inter process communication by the following services

(a) Shared memory

(b) Message queue
(c) Mailboxes [6+6+4]

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