28561 - Laboratory of Automatic Machines

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Automation Engineering (cod. 9217)

    Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Automation Engineering (cod. 9217)

Learning outcomes

Analysis and design of mechanical and actuation systems for automation.

Course contents

The course is organized in three sections:

1. Functional analysis of mechanical systems and components used in Automatic Machines

2. Design synthesis design of mechanical systems used in Automatic Machines

3. Design of mechanical components used in automatic machines using

Readings/Bibliography

1. Lectures notes

2. Luigi Biagiotti · Claudio Melchiorri, Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots, Springer-Verlag, 2008

3. Geoffrey Boothroyd, Peter Dewhurst, Winston A. Knight, Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011

4. Geoffrey Boothroyd, Assembly Automation and Product Design, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005

5. Robert C. Juvinall, Kurt M. Marshek, Fundamentals of Machine Component Design, John Wiley & Sons, 2012

6. Richard G. Budynas, J. Keith Nisbett, Shigley’s

Mechanical Engineering Design, McGraw-Hill, 2011

Teaching methods

Classroom teaching with the use of slides and audiovisual.

The course is developed both by providing theoretical concepts and by doing in classroom and giving, as homework, theoretical and practical exercises related to the construction aspects of components of Automatic Machines and related to actuation systems.

Assessment methods

The assessment will be divided into a written test and an oral discussion as detailed below.

In the written test, relating to all the topics of the course, questions about theory and exercises can be assigned, also with multiple answers. Each question of the written test will have a score, stated in the text of the same test, and the sum of the scores will be equal to 30. The admission to the oral exam is conditional on passing the written test with a score greater than or equal to 18.

During the oral examination the student will have to discuss the exercises of the homework book and the teacher will submit to the student transversal and reasoning questions related to the topics and the exercises covered during the lessons.

Teaching tools

PowerPoint presentations and audiovisual.

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Zucchelli