School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Robotics 1
  • Unit Code

    ENS5442
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Majid TOLOUEI RAD

Description

The unit covers robot kinematics, differential motions and velocities, dynamic analysis and forces, and trajectory planning. These fundamentals are followed up by the study of actuators, sensors, machine vision and various types of robot control.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3553, ENS5341, ENS6160

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Classify industrial robots according to their abilities and limitations.
  2. Create efficient programs for various manipulation tasks.
  3. Design a robotic system including sensor and actuator control.
  4. Implement the principles of robot control and task planning.
  5. Research new advancements in robotics and assess the relevance of these to future directions in the field.

Unit Content

  1. Computer vision for robotic systems, digital images, image processing.
  2. Differential motions and velocities, Jacobian, differential motions of a robot and its hand frame.
  3. Dynamic analysis and Lagrangian mechanics.
  4. New applications of robotics in different industrial environments, e.g. space, underwater, mobile robots.
  5. Overview of robots, basic properties including robot degrees of freedom, joints, coordinates, reference frames and workspace.
  6. Robot kinematics, basic translations and rotations, forward and inverse kinematics and Denavit-Hartenberg representation.
  7. Sensors and actuators used in robotics.
  8. Trajectory generation and path control, joint-space and Cartesian-space descriptions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and group laboratory work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory work, reports and assignments30%
TestMid-semester theory test20%
PresentationProject/seminar presentation10%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Spong, M. W., Hutchinson, S., & Vidyasagar, M. (2006). Robot modeling and control. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Robotics 1
  • Unit Code

    ENS5442
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Majid TOLOUEI RAD

Description

The unit covers robot kinematics, differential motions and velocities, dynamic analysis and forces, and trajectory planning. These fundamentals are followed up by the study of actuators, sensors, machine vision and various types of robot control.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3553, ENS5341, ENS6160

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Classify industrial robots according to their abilities and limitations.
  2. Create efficient programs for various manipulation tasks.
  3. Design a robotic system including sensor and actuator control.
  4. Implement the principles of robot control and task planning.
  5. Research new advancements in robotics and assess the relevance of these to future directions in the field.

Unit Content

  1. Computer vision for robotic systems, digital images, image processing.
  2. Differential motions and velocities, Jacobian, differential motions of a robot and its hand frame.
  3. Dynamic analysis and Lagrangian mechanics.
  4. New applications of robotics in different industrial environments, e.g. space, underwater, mobile robots.
  5. Overview of robots, basic properties including robot degrees of freedom, joints, coordinates, reference frames and workspace.
  6. Robot kinematics, basic translations and rotations, forward and inverse kinematics and Denavit-Hartenberg representation.
  7. Sensors and actuators used in robotics.
  8. Trajectory generation and path control, joint-space and Cartesian-space descriptions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and group laboratory work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory work, reports and assignments30%
TestMid-semester theory test20%
PresentationProject/seminar presentation10%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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