Høst 2022

INE-3601 Robotics in Manufacturing Systems - 5 stp

The course is administrated by

Institutt for industriell teknologi

Type of course

The course can be taken as an single course.

Course overlap

STE6210 Robotics in Manufacturing Systems 5 stp

Course contents

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

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."

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

Objective 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

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.

Date for examination

School exam 14.12.2022

The date for the exam can be changed. The final date will be announced at your faculty early in May and early in November.