Module Descriptors
ADVANCED ROBOTICS
MECH60475
Key Facts
School of Creative Arts and Engineering
Level 6
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Christopher Moorcroft
Email: C.I.Moorcroft@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 27
Independent Study Hours: 123
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • EXAMINATION - UNSEEN IN EXAMINATION CONDITIONS weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Learning Strategies
Practical laboratory sessions (1 hour per week) will be complemented with theory in the form of handouts, recommended reading, tutorials and lectures (2 hours per week). In addition to this you will receive Technical Instruction on the use of MATLAB (1 hour) and PLC's (2 hours).
Module Additional Assessment Details
100% exam (2 hours), 3/5 questions on robotics theory, control and application to assess Learning Outcomes 1-3.
Module Indicative Content
Denavit Hartenberg matrices as applied to manipulator kinematics
Continuous path motion calculation using manipulators
Inverse kinematics of manipulators and mobile robots
Robots interfaced to the factory - PLC techniques
Advanced control methods and path planning
Dynamics
Robot ethics
Artificial intelligence applied to robots
Module Special Admissions Requirements
None.
Module Resources
Laboratory facilities consisting of MATLAB and control systems training facilities. PC, control software, interface cards, servo motors, oscilloscopes, digital storage oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, power supplies, signal generators, etc.
Laboratory robot manipulators.

Module Texts
Niku. S, Introduction to Robotics: Analysis, Systems, Application, Upper Saddle River N.J., Prentice Hall, 2nd Ed, (2011) ISBN: 0130613096
Jazar. R, Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics and Control, London: Springer, (2010), ISBN: 1441917497
Spong.M, Robot modeling and control, Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons (2006), ISBN/ISSN: 9780471649908