Mechanics and control of collaborative robots
Faculty
Maria Pozzi
Research Fellow in Robotics and Automation
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Overview
Robotics has considerably improved industrial processes, and is expected to soon become an important part of our daily life, since it is starting to face more human-centered problems. Important technological advancements are leading to the construction of lightweight robot arms able to effectively co-work with humans, without being confined into industrial production cells anymore. After a detailed introduction on basic and more advanced notions related to robot manipulators mechanics and control, this course will encourage discussion on the “collaborative robotics” paradigm shift, outlining its main challenges, advantages, and limitations.
Learning highlights
- Differences between Lagrangian and Newton-Euler formulations of robot dynamics
- Most used actuation mechanisms and sensing systems for robot manipulators
- Existing motion control techniques for robot manipulators
- Existing force control techniques for robot manipulators
- Four collaboration modes between humans and robots
- Control schemes for collaborative robotics
Course outline
4 classes
Introduction to
collaborative robotics
Objectives of the course and description of grading modalities. Introduction to collaborative robotics and Industry 4.0: motivations, classifications, applications.
Actuation mechanisms
for robot manipulators
Mechanical structure, joints and links. Different types of actuators.
Sensing systems for robot manipulators
Exteroceptive and proprioceptive sensors.
Robot Dynamics 1
Introduction to robot dynamics. Inverse and direct dynamics. Lagrangian formulation.
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Prerequisites
This course is one of three in a wholistic series.
Students that have already taken MSL-111 and those with prior experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript building simple web pages will be good candidates for this module.
Maria Pozzi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Robotics and Automation at the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Siena, Italy. She recently concluded a PhD program in Information Engineering conducted at the University of Siena and at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, Italy. She carries on her research in the Siena Robotics and Systems Lab (http://sirslab.diism.unisi.it/), studying the principles and mechanisms that regulate human and robotic grasping, with applications in human-robot collaboration. She is also working on educational robotics within the European project "INBOTS - Inclusive Robotics for a Better Society" (http://inbots.eu/).
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Mechanics and control of collaborative robots
by Maria Pozzi
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Nov 04 - Nov 22, 2019
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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