SRI RAMAKRISHNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE

[Educational Service : SNR Sons Charitable Trust]

[Autonomous Institution, Reaccredited by NAAC with ‘A+’ Grade]
[Approved by AICTE and Permanently Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai]
[ISO 9001:2015 Certified and all eligible programmes Accredited by NBA]
VATTAMALAIPALAYAM, N.G.G.O. COLONY POST, COIMBATORE – 641 022.

B.E. ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION

ENGINEERING

20RA204– ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY

Semester : 03 Year : II
Academic Year : 2023-2024

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 VISION OF THE COLLEGE

 To develop into a leading world class Technological University consisting

of Schools of Excellence in various disciplines with a co-existent Centre

for Engineering Solutions Development for world-wide clientele.

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 MISSION OF THE COLLEGE

 To provide all necessary inputs to the students for them to grow into

knowledge engineers and scientists attaining.

 Excellence in domain knowledge- practice and theory.

 Excellence in co-curricular and Extra curricular talents.

 Excellence in character and personality.

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 VISION AND MISSION OF THE
DEPARTMENT
Vision
• To develop Electronics and Communication Engineers by keeping pace
with changing technologies, professionalism, creativity research and
employability.
Mission
• To provide quality an contemporary education through
teaching- learning process that equips the students with
effective
knowledge in Electronics
adequate
and Communication Engineering
for a successful career.
• To inculcate the students in problem solving and lifelong learning skills
that will enable them to pursue higher studies and career in research.
• To produce engineers with effective communication skills, the abilities to
lead a team adhering to ethical values and inclination serve the society.

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 Programme Educational
Objectives(PEOs) of the Programme
• The Program Educational Objective (PEOs) of ECE is established through
consultative process. The PEOs of Electronics and Communication
Engineering will demonstrate the following qualities which would be
attained by the graduates after few years of graduation.
• PEO 1 Excel in professional career to provide engineering solution by
demonstrating technical competence and by acquiring knowledge in
electronics and communication engineering.
• PEO 2 Identify, analyze and formulate problems to offer appropriate
design solutions that are technically superior, economically feasible,
environmentally compatible, professionally ethical and socially
acceptable.
• PEO 3 Achieve progress in professional and research career through
communication skills, team work and knowledge up gradation through
higher education.

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 Programme Outcomes (POs)
• PO1. Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics,
science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to
the solution of complex engineering problems.
• PO2. Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, research
review literature, and analyze complex engineering
problems
substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, reachin
natural
sciences, and engineering sciences. g
• PO3. Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex
engineering problems and design system components or processes that
meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public
health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental
considerations.

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 Programme Outcomes (POs)
• PO4. Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use
research- based knowledge and research methods including design of
experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the
information to provide valid conclusions.
• PO5. Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate
techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including
prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an
understanding of the limitations.
• PO6. The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the
contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural
issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional
engineering practice.

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 Programme Outcomes (POs)
• PO7. Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the
professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental
contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable
development.
• PO8. Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to
professional
ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.
• PO9. Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual,
and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary
settings.
• PO10. Communication: Communicate effectively on complex
engineering activities with the engineering community and with society
at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports
and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and
receive clear instructions.
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 Programme Outcomes (POs)
• PO11. Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and
understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply
these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage
projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
• PO12. Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the
preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in
the broadest context of technological change.

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 Course Outcomes:
CO1: Explain the fundamentals of robots and their functions
CO2: Identify the type of drives and grippers for robot system

CO3: Explain the programming methods and languages used

for robots
CO4: Describe the most common applications of the robot in
industries
CO5 Summarize the concept of robot cell design and safety
standards

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 UNIT I
• FUNDAMENTALS OF ROBOT

• Need for robots - definition of a robot - robot anatomy - co-

ordinate systems - work envelope, types and configurations -
specifications - pitch, yaw and roll - degrees of freedom –
joint notations - robot motions - point to point control -
continuous path control - payload – robot parts and their
functions- sensors in robot

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 UNIT II
• ROBOT DRIVES AND GRIPPERS/PROGRAMMING

• Robot drives - types - electric, hydraulic and pneumatic-

harmonic drives - Grippers and end of arm tooling - types -
mechanical, vacuum, adhesive grippers - RCC device. Robot
programming methods and levels - languages - Robot
operating system – Robot motion/Trajectory planning –
basics

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 UNIT III
• ROBOT APPLICATIONS

• Material - picking, and palletizing -

handling - packing
Robot welding – part transfer
loading/unloading and
machine tending - assembly - inspection -
automatic robots -mobile robots
processing operations - collaborative

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 UNIT IV
• ROBOT CELL DESIGN AND SAFETY STANDARDS

• Robot cell layouts - robot centered cell - inline robot cell -

mobile work cell - considerations in work design - work cell -
interlocks - error detection recovery - robot implementation
and safety - human interface - barrier -emergency stop -
interlock - curtains - area scanner – safety mat - light
Indicators - alarms - operator training and maintenance-
international safety standards.

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 BOOKS
TEXT BOOKS
1.Groover.M.P., “Industrial Robotics - Technology, Programming and Applications”,
Tata McGraw Hill Education, 2nd Edition (Special Indian Edition), 2012.
2.Deb.S.R., “Robotics Technology and Flexible Automation”, Tata McGraw-
Hill Education, 2nd Edition, 2010.

REFERENCES
3.Fu. K.S., Gonzalez.R.C., and Lee C.S.G., “Robotics: Control, Sensing, Vision and
Intelligence”, McGraw Hill,1st Edition, 2008.
4.Saha.S.K, “Introduction to Robotics”, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2nd Edition,
2008.
5.John.J.Craig, “Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics and Control”,
Pearson Education India, 3rd Edition, 2008.
6. YoramKoren., “Robotics for Engineers”, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 12th Edition, 2007.

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 • A robot is a type of automated machine that can execute
specific tasks with little or no human intervention and with
speed and precision.
• Robots are the means of performing multiple activities for
man’s welfare in the most planned and integrated manner,
maintaining their own flexibility to do any work, effecting
enhanced productivity, guaranteeing quality, assuring
reliability and ensuring safety to the workers.

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 • An industrial robot is a reprogrammable, multifunctional
manipulator designed to move materials, parts, tools
through variable programmed motions for the performance
of tasks.
- Robotics Industries Association
(RIA)

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 What is a Robot: I
• Manipulator

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 What is a Robot: II

Legged Robot Wheeled Robot

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 What is a Robot: III
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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 What Can Robots Do: I

Jobs that are dangerous

for humans

Decontaminating Robot
Cleaning the main circulating pump housing in
the nuclear power plant

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 What Can Robots Do: II

Repetitive jobs that are

boring, stressful, or labor-
intensive for humans

W elding Robot

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 What Can Robots Do: III

Manual tasks that human

don’t want to do

The SCRUBMATE Robot

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 WHAT IS ROBOTICS?
• Robotics is the science of designing and building robots
suitable for real-life applications in automated
manufacturing and other non manufacturing environments.

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 LAW OF ROBOTICS

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 LAW OF ROBOTICS
• Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, which are designed
to prevent robots harming humans.
• The first law is that a robot shall not harm a human, or by
inaction allow a human to come to harm.
• The second law is that a robot shall obey any
instruction given to it by a human.
• The third law is that a robot shall avoid actions or situations
that could cause it to come to harm itself.

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 Robotics systems

• A robot is a system as it combines many subsystems that

interact among themselves as well as with the environment
in which the robot works.
• Components of a robot:
– A base – fixed or mobile
– A manipulator arm with several degrees of freedom (DOF)
– An end-effector or gripper holding a part or a tool.
– Drives or actuators causing the manipulator arm or end-effector to
move in a space.

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 – Controller with hardware and software support for giving commands
to the drives.
– Sensors to feed back the information for subsequent actions of the
arm or gripper as well as to interact with the environment in which
the robot is working.
– Interfaces connecting the robotic subsystems to external world.

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 Robot Anatomy
• Robot anatomy is concerned with the physical construction
of body, arm, and wrist of the machine.
• The body is attached to the base and the arm is attached to
the body, at the end of the arm is the wrist.
• The body, arm and wrist assembly called as MANIPULATOR.
• Attached to the robot’s wrist is a hand or a tool called the
END-EFFECTOR but it is not considered as part of robot
anatomy.

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 Block diagram of Robot System

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 Coordinate systems & Types of
configuration
• 4 basic configurations:
– Polar configuration
– Cylindrical
configuration
– Cartesian
coordinate
configuration
– Jointed arm
configuration.

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 • Polar configuration:
• Uses a telescoping arm that can be raised/lowered
about horizontal pivot. The pivot is mounted on a rotating
base.
• The joints with capability to move its arm within a spherical
space – spherical coordinate.

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 • The cylindrical configuration uses a vertical column and slide
that can be moved up/down along the column. The robot
arm is attached to the slide so that it can be moved radially
w.r.t the column.

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 • The Cartesian coordinate robot uses 3 perpendicular slides
to construct x,y,z axes. By moving the 3 slides relative to one
another, the robot is capable of operating within a
rectangular work envelope.

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 • The jointed arm robot is made up of rotating joints. This
robot configuration is also sometimes called
anthropomorphic as its anatomy is similar to human-arm.

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 Work Volume/Envelope

• It refers to the space within which the robot can manipulate

its wrist end.
• The end-effector is an addition to the basic robot and should
not be a part of working space.
• The work volume is determined by the following
physical characteristics of the robot:
– The robot’s physical configuration (type of joints, structure of links)
– The sizes of the body, arm, wrist components.
– The limits of the robot’s joint movements.

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 • Polar robot- partial sphere work volume
• Cylindrical robot – cylindrical work volume
• Cartesian robot – rectangular work volume

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 THANK YOU

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