Class Robotics and Automation

This UC allows the exploration of the technical and engineering aspects of automated production systems, providing advanced, comprehensive and balanced coverage of the subject. It covers leading cutting-edge production automation technologies and how these technologies are used to build modern manufacturing systems.

CP1. Introduction: production systems, automation in production systems, principles and strategies of automation, Lean manufacturing.

CP2. Introduction to Automation: basic elements of an automated system, advanced automation functions, flexible manufacturing systems and associated elements (automated warehouses, material handling).

CP3. Industrial Control Systems: processes vs discrete production, continuous vs discrete control, PC control.

CP4. Harware components for Automation: sensors, actuators, A/D and D/A converters.

CP5. Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC): concepts, ladder logic diagrams.

CP6. Industrial Robotics: anatomy, sensors, applications, programming, accuracy and repeatability.

Written review of article(s) on the subject.

• Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Global Edition, 4th Edition, Mikell Groover, 2016, Pearson
• Técnicas de Automação, 3ª ed., J.R. Caldas Pinto, ETEP 2010, Lidel