autumn 2022
INE-3601 Robotics in Manufacturing Systems - 5 ECTS

Application deadline

"Applicants from countries within EU/EEA: June 1st for the autumn semester and December 1st for the spring semester. Exchange students and Fulbright students: 15 October for the spring semester and 15 April for the autumn semester."

Type of course

The course can be taken as an single course.

Admission requirements

Bachelor degree in Engineering program in mechanical, electrical power, electronics, mechatronics, material science, industrial engineering, process engineering or other equivalent majors.

In addition, the following requirements must be met:

-minimum 25 credits in mathematics (equivalent to Mathematical Methods 1, 2 og 3), 5 credits in statistics and 7,5 ects i physics on a higher level is required.

Application code: 9371


Course overlap

If you pass the examination in this course, you will get an reduction in credits (as stated below), if you previously have passed the following courses:

STE6210 Robotics in Manufacturing Systems 5 stp

Course content

Lecture week 1

  • Historical overview: expectations vs. potential of robotics
  • Application aspects of industrial robots: utility, safety, economics
  • Basic definitions, structure and types of industrial robots
  • Actuators, internal sensors, fundamental control concepts
  • Interfaces, external sensors, image processing
  • Programming approaches, integration into production systems
  • Robots in Industry 4.0, human-robot collaboration

Lecture week 2

  • Kinematic modeling of robot arms: coordinate transformations, modeling conventions
  • Solving forward and inverse kinematic problems
  • Inverse kinematic solution with wrist decomposition
  • Understanding inverse solution branches, singular configurations
  • Inverse kinematics solutions based on geometrical structures
  • Numerical solution methods, Jacobian matrix
  • Path interpolation, acceleration, deceleration  

Objectives of the course

Introduction to the industrial robot. Design of robots and their industrial applications. Technical, economic, and organizational issues related to the implementation of robotics in advanced flexible manufacturing systems.

Knowledge (K):

  • Industrial robots: Structure, applications, role in industry
  • Robot kinematics, coordinate frames and Jacobian matrices
  • Control systems for motion control
  • Robot vision
  • Simulation of robots / robotized systems

Skills (S):

  • Programming of robot motion

General competence (GC):

  • Design and implementation of robot systems 

Language of instruction and examination

Teaching language: English

Examination language: English. Answers are also accepted in Norwegian.


Teaching methods

Lectures until noon and practical exercises in the afternoon. If distance learning is mandated by current circumstances, lectures will be held remotely, and instruction videos and datasets will be available for the exercises.

Information to incoming exchange students

This course is open for inbound exchange student who meets the admission requirements. Please see the Admission requirements" section".

Master Level

Do you have questions about this module? Please check the following website to contact the course coordinator for exchange students at the faculty: https://en.uit.no/education/art?p_document_id=510412.


Examination

Examination: Date: Duration: Grade scale:
School exam 14.12.2022 09:00
3 Hours A–E, fail F

Coursework requirements:

To take an examination, the student must have passed the following coursework requirements:

Exercises Approved – not approved
UiT Exams homepage

More info about the coursework requirements

6 exercises are included in the course, 4 practical exercises (robot programming) in lecture week 1, and 2 theory exercises (modeling, calculation) in lecture week 2.

2/3 of the exercises are mandatory. Exercises are performed individually or as project work by student teams. Students attending the practical exercises on-site can deliver exercise reports as a team. Students attending via distance learning are required to elaborate exercise reports individually.


Re-sit examination

A re-sit exam will be arranged for this course.
  • About the course
  • Campus: Narvik |
  • ECTS: 5
  • Course code: INE-3601
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