INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTIC AUTOMATION FOR ARCHITECTURAL MANUFACTURING
COURSE SYLLABUS
GENERAL INFORMATION
Instructor: Brian Ringley, ringlebt@gmail.com
Term: Spring 2014, 03/01/2014 – 05/03/2014
Location: Voorhees Hall, Room 811 “Lab C”
Meeting Time: Saturday 09:00am – 12:00pm
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This Perkins-funded, non-credit bearing pilot course will give students a basic introduction to the world of industrial robotic arms and automated manufacturing. An architectural assembly will be proposed, simulated, and prototyped using graphical programming in Robot Studio, the ABB RAPID code language, and the ABB IRB 140 industrial robotic arm.
COURSE CONCEPTS
Robot Studio File Hierarchy (Geometry, Libraries, RAPID, Stations, Systems)
Robotic Motion (Linear Motion, Joint Motion, Circular Motion, Motion About Tooling)
Robotic Programming (Graphical, RAPID)
Robotic Station Setup (Controller, Robot, Tooling, Workspace, Workpiece)
Digital to Physical Fidelity (Work Objects)
Approaching the Workpiece (Tooling Vectors, Targets)
Task Automation (Libraries, Modules, Snippets)
COURSE SOFTWARE
Rhino 5.0 SR 7
Grasshopper 0.9.0066
RobotWare / RobotStudio 5.60
ghHAL, ghKaramba (pending)
COURSE HARDWARE
ABB IRC5 Compact Controller
ABB IRB140 Industrial Robotic Arm
FTM Heating Strip
FLOW Waterjet (pending)
COURSE MATERIALS
High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) – 0.020” black, 0.020” white, 0.030” white, 0.040” white, 0.060” white
Acrylic Sheeting – 0.125” clear
STM A240 304-2B Stainless Steel – 11 gauge, 16 gauge, 22 gauge
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