Welcome to the Mechanical Engineering Department
Robotics Laboratory
Location:192-121
The Robotics Lab is part of our robotics course and is used for teaching robotic operations and tasks, vision systems, and microprocessor control of devices and actuators.
In this lab, students learn about robot capabilities and limitations, robot programming techniques, robotic assembly and communications, robot control, rapid prototyping, vision processing and analysis, and fuzzy logic control.
Equipment:
- Three AdeptSix 300 6-axis articulated robots with vision system, an Adept SCARA robot, a student-made SR1 robot, two vision systems, a microprocessor control experiment, a CNC Milling machine, and Fuzzy Logic FIDE software.
Description of Equipment/Lab:
- Students program robots to perform various tasks to understand robotic programming principles, vision system, rapid prototyping, and microprocessors. Our latest projects include animatronic lips capable of mimicking human lip movements in speech and a sight-to-touch converter which will enable a blind person to "feel" a scene, a program that writes all entered texts, and a Rubics Cube Robotic Player