Introduction to Robotics and his history, Overview of robot subsystems, Degrees of freedom, Configurations and concept of workspace, Automation, Mechanisms and movements, Dynamic stabilization.
Pneumatic and hydraulic actuators, stepper motor control circuits, End effectors, Various types of Grippers, Design consideration in vacuum and other methods of gripping, PD and PID feedback actuator models
Construction of Manipulators, Manipulator Dynamic and Force Control, Electronic and pneumatic manipulator, Forward Kinematic problems, Inverse Kinematic problems, Solutions of Inverse Kinematic problems
Applications in Biomedical Engineering – Bio Engineering - Biologically Inspired Robots, Neural Engineering, Application in Rehabilitation – Interactive Therapy, Bionic Arm - Clinical and Surgical, Nano robotics.
Da Vinci Surgical System, Image guided robotic system for local ultrasound based surgical applications, System concept for robotic Tele-surgical system for off-pump CABG surgery, Cardiac surgery, Neurosurgery, Paediatric, and general Surgery
Reference Book:
1 Howie Choset, kevin Lynch, Seth Hutchinson, George Kantor, Wolfram Burgard, Lydia Kavraki and Sebastian Thurn, ―Principles of robot motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations‖, Prentice hall of India, First edition, 2005. 2 Philippe Coiffet, Michel chirouze, ―An Introduction to Robot Technology‖, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2012. 3 Jacob Rosen, Blake Hannaford & Richard M Satava, ―Surgical Robotics: System Applications &Visions‖, Springer 2011. 4 Fu.K.S. Gonzalaz.R.C., Lee C.S.G, ―Robotics Control, sensing, Vision and Intelligence‖, Tata McGraw Hill International, First edition, 2008. 5 John Iovine, "Robots, Android and Animatronics", McGraw-Hill, 2nd Edition, 2012.
Text Book:
1 R.K.Mittal and I.J.Nagrath, Robotics and Control, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi,4th Reprint, 2005 2 Spong and Vidhyasagar, ―Robot Dynamics and Control‖, John Wiley and Sons, First edition, 2008
