This courses introduces fundamental concepts for designing automation machines: designing and specifying machine elements such as cams, gears and drives; designing mechanisms that generate different types of motion for part feeding, orienting, transferring and indexing; controlling motion through pneumatic and electric actuators and PLCs; machine vision systems for inspection; and condition monitoring machines for fault detection and safety. Students will get hands-on experience programming and controlling an automation machine through a series of labs with a tabletop mechatronic workcell.
(Lec: 3, Lab: 0.5, Tut: 0)