Basics of robotics ERASMUS>ELE20

1. Goals and tasks set for industrial robots, ethical dilemmas related to robotics, basic concepts and terminology in robotics.
2. Manipulator movement system, types of joints, number of degrees of freedom, working spaces, typical manipulator configurations.
3. Types of robots, various bases of their classification and application.
4. Sensors and measurement transducers used in robotics, micro- and nano-electromechanical technologies (MEMS, NEMS), sensor fusion, intelligent sensors.
5. Robot engines and drives, types of gears.
6. Robot axis control systems - servomechanisms.
7. Grippers, methods of transmitting motion.
8. Mathematical description of robot motion, Denavit-Hartenberg notation, direct and inverse kinematics problems, manipulator dynamics.
9. Robot movement programming methods.
10. IV and V generation robots, directions of robotics development.