ELT 722 - Advanced Robotics

1. Setup a machine vision system
   1. Set up a camera
   2. List software is needed for robot vision systems.
   3. Set up a teaching PC to a robot vision system.
   4. Program a robotic task using vision for error proofing
2. Explain 2D, 2.5D, and 3D vision systems.
   1. Describe passive and active lighting systems
   2. Discuss range imaging sytem
3. Interconnect Robotic system into workcell
   1. Discuss industrial communication protocols
   2. Discuss integration of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software and Robotic Workcells.
4. Construct a Human Machine Interface (HMI) into a Robotic Work Cell
   1. Diagram a complete automated workcell that uses a HMI interface.
   2. Examine HMI interface for minimizing human and machine errors in production.
   3. Demonstrate or simulate workcell production from HMI.
5. Setup OSHA required guarding on Robotic Workcell.
   1. Discuss OSHA requirements for robotic and automated systems
   2. Measure stop time on an industrial machine.
   3. Calculate guarding requirements of an industrial machine base on stop time measurements.
6. Calibrate Servo Feedback system
   1. Describe feedback systems in modern servo Control.
   2. Contrast position sensors types.
   3. Examine Proportional, Integral, and Differential (PID) types of feedback.
   4. Tune a servo control system to maximize speed and minimize error.
7. Setup a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)
   1. Discuss industrial standards of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
   2. Use Verisurf or similar coordinate measuring machine to measure complex shapes.
8. Analyze Modern Flexible Manufacturing Systems
   1. Explain lean manufacturing principles in modern industry.
   2. Discuss quality control principles.
   3. Calculate return on investment (ROI) of an automated production system.
   4. Describe Statistical Process Control (SPC).