Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Address:

Northern Laboratories 1, UG Complex

Overview:

The robotics lab has been designed to complement the theory part of the course ME381- Robotics, offered in 5th Semester to UG students. The topics taught in the lecture class related to forward and inverse kinematics, sensors, actuators, control systems and industrial robot programming are connected to the experiments conducted in the lab, so that students can have hands on learning and also relate the theory with actual practical applications. All the experiments are run using microcontroller control along with a laptop, so that the students become familiar with concepts of microcontroller programming as well as modern sensors, actuators and controllers. This exposes students to the basics of all modern control systems like robots, electric vehicles, drones, CNC machines, etc.

Equipment:
  • Microcontrollers - Arduino Uno
  • Sensors
  • DC Motor
  • Stepper Motor
  • Servo Motor
  • 2R Manipulator
  • 5R Manipulator
  • Mobile Robot
  • Industrial Robots - Svaya SR-L6
  • PUMA 560
Experiments:
  1. Basics of Microcontroller, LED blink, etc.
  2. Basics of microcontroller communication (time dependent execution and communication)
  3. Sensor interfacing with microcontroller, e.g., encoder, proximity, hall effect, joystick, etc.
  4. Actuators: Stepper and Servo motors position control
  5. Actuators: DC motor position and speed control with magnetic encoder
  6. Forward and inverse kinematics of a two-link serial planar manipulator
  7. Kinematics of parallel manipulators
  8. Industrial manipulator programming - PUMA 560 and Svaya SR-L6
  9. Mobile robot control and its application

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Faculty: Dr. Ashish Dutta

Contact Person:
Ashutosh Singh
312 Northern Laboratories 1
+91-7880409461
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Basics of Microcontroller (Time Dependent Execution and Communication)

Different Sensor Interfacing with Microcontroller

Actuators: Stepper and Servo Motors Position Control

Actuators: DC Motor with Encoder – Speed and Position Control

Kinematics of a Two-Link Serial Planar Manipulator

Mobile Robot Control and Its Application

Kinematics of a Five-Bar Parallel Planar Manipulator

Svaya SR-L6

PUMA 560