Education and Career Forum

Robotics & Automation is a special paper of Electronics Engineering that students are allowed to take up as specialization in the technological area. The paper outlines the specific areas of robotics and automation that indirectly contribute into the practical application of their skills and knowledge. The paper starts with types of robots and robot configurations, use of industrial robots and then moves onto the matrices and transformation systems, kinematics and rotation matrices, covers a part of planning and execution techniques like trajectory planning, inverse locations, workspace preparation, sensor based motion understanding and finally lays down the dynamic analysis graphs and theorems. The automation section elaborately plans out the manufacturing functions, automation strategies and production concepts under the introductory part. The topics are mostly distributed among Detroit-type automation, assembly systems and line balancing, automated materials handling and automated inspection and quality testing. The use of different tools and application of machines are covered simultaneously.