Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Fundamental aspects related to robot kinematics
• Methods of how to make spatial description of objects
• Basic methodologies for kinematic modelling of robot manipulators
• Principles for kinematic robot simulation
• Transforming task description to robot movements

Skills

• Apply homogeneous transformation matrices to represent position and orientation of objects
• Setup the direct and inverse kinematics of a robot
• Design simple trajectory planners, including Cartesian and joint interpolators
• Program an industrial robot to carry out various production tasks
• Transform the task space descriptions to robot movements
• Simulate the kinematic behaviour of a robot

Competences

• Must be able to program a robot so that the desired kinematic behaviour is obtained.
• Must be able to simulate the kinematics of a robot
• Must be able to solve simple production tasks with an industrial robot.

Type of instruction

See the general description of the types of instruction described in the introduction to Chapter 3.

Exam

Exams