33959 - Construction of Automated Machines and Robots M

Learning outcomes

The student acquires a thorough knowledge of automatic machines and robotic systems with regard to the functional architecture, the internal subsystems and components, with the general design criteria and their use.

Course contents

The course is carried out by completing the methodological knowledge related to the design of Automatic Machinery (Systematic Design Methodologies, Advanced topics on the Architectures of Automatic Machines and Buffer, analysis Cineto-Elasto-dynamics methods, advanced analysis Web Handling systems) and is given ample space to the concrete design of automatic machines groups in collaboration with companies that provide real issues.

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

Written and oral examination with discussion of the assigned exercises.

Teaching tools

PowerPoint presentations and audiovisual.

Office hours

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