Course:MECH464
| Industrial Robotics | |
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| MECH 464 | |
| Section: | 001 |
| Instructor: | Elizabeth Croft |
| Email: | elizabeth.croft@ubc.ca |
| Office: | CEME 2059 |
| Office Hours: | TBA |
| Class Schedule: | Tue Thu 11-12:30 |
| Classroom: | Hugh Dempster Pavilion 201 |
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Course Content
Definition and classification of industrial robotic devices. Selection and implementation issues. Workcell environments. Forward and inverse kinematics, dynamics, trajectory planning. Sensing and manipulation tasks. Control architectures. Credit cannot be obtained for both MECH 464 and MECH 563
Course Notes
The Coures notes are posted on https://www.vista.ubc.ca, along with lab materials, problems, solutions and some sample exams. This page is used to provide publicly available companion material to the notes.
Chapter 1
Videos
Further Reading
- A Roadmap for US Robotics, May 21, 2009
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine - free access from UBC Library
Chapter 7
- Dynamics in Action!. Also check out inverted pendulum video link on same page (about 2 years old but still way cool).
Resources
EU SAPHARI Project
This EU 7th Framework project features some truly cool advances in Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction. The videos are well worth browsing, and this site will be updated over the next 3 years with more publications and videos.
Mailing Lists/Blogs for Robotics
Please feel free to add to this list
This is a fully moderated email list of robotics researchers worldwide. This list will only provide announcements of general value to the robotics community. Email communication through this list will be very sparse and, with a certain level of subjectivity, filtered by the list moderator. Subscription and unsubscription can be handled through a web interface.
Business news on robotics.
Mailing list of Laboratory for Computational Intelligence reading group Robuddies. To subscribe to the mailing list for talk announcements, send a message to "majordomo[at]cs.ubc.ca" with the words "subscribe robuddies-seminars" in the body.
New Robotic Simulator Just Announced
The V-REP robot simulator is now open source. As of now, it is also fully free and without any limitation for students, teachers, professors, schools and universities. No registration required.
Moreover, V-REP is now available for customization and sub-licensing.
V-REP is the Swiss army knife among robot simulators: you won't find a simulator with more features and functions, or a more elaborate API:
- Cross-platform: Windows, Mac OSX and Linux (32 & 64 bit) - Open source: full source code downloadable and compilable. Precompiled binaries also available for each platform - 6 programming approaches: embedded scripts, plugins, add-ons, ROS nodes, remote API clients, or custom solutions - 6 programming languages: C/C++, Python, Java, Lua, Matlab, and Urbi - API: more than 400 different functions - ROS: >100 services, >30 publisher types, >25 subscriber types, extendable - Importers/exporters: URDF, COLLADA, DXF, OBJ, 3DS, STL - 2 Physics engines: ODE and Bullet - Kinematic solver: IK and FK for ANY mechanism, can also be embedded on your robot - Interference detection: calculations between ANY meshes. Very fast - Minimum distance calculation: calculations between ANY meshes. Very fast - Path planning: holonomic in 2-6 dimensions and non-holonomic for car-like vehicles - Vision sensors: includes built-in image processing, fully extendable - Proximity sensors: very realistic and fast (minimum distance within a detection volume) - User interfaces: built-in, fully customizable (editor included) - Robot motion library: fully integrated Reflexxes Motion Library type 4 - Data recording and visualisation: time graphs, X/Y graphs or 3D curves - Shape edit modes: includes a semi-automatic primitive shape extraction method - Dynamic particles: simulation of water- or air-jets - Model browser: includes drag-and-drop functionality, also during simulation - Other: Multi-level undo/redo, movie recorder, convex decomposition, simulation of paint, exhaustive documentation, etc.
For more information, please visit our website or have a look at following demo video
News
January 24, 2013: Open Masters Research position in Robotics at Memorial University (NFLD)