Introduction to Robots and Robotics- where India stands, History of robots, Classification of robots, Present status and future trends, Basic components of robotic system, Basic terminology- Accuracy, Repeatability, Resolution, Degree of freedom, Specifications of robot. Co-ordinate Systems, Work Envelope, types and classification – Specifications – Pitch, Yaw, Roll, Joint Notations, Speed of Motion, Pay Load – Basic robot motions - Point to point control, Continuous path control, Robot Parts and Their Functions– Need for Robots Different Applications, Types of robotics configurations – DOF of serial and parallel manipulator, Basic motion of robot manipulator – Tool center point, Robot end effector: Grippers and Tools, Robot Kinematics, Trajectory Planning, Robot Dynamics, Analysis of Wheeled Robot, Analysis of Biped Robot, Analysis of Humanoid Robot.

Design concepts, AC-DC Conversions, DC-DC conversions Linear Power Supply basics, Switched Mode Power Supply basics, Buck, Boost and Buck Boost Configurations, Design of Battery charger, Design of Isolated DC-DC converter for battery charging system of a field robot, IC based Linear Power Supply, Switched Mode Power Supply, Overview of Battery Chemistries, Charging methods, Battery charger circuits (Lead Acid & Li Ion), Battery Protection, Battery Management System, Robot drive systems: Pneumatic Drives – Hydraulic Drives –Mechanical Drives – Electrical Drives – D.C. Servo Motors, Stepper Motor, A.C. Servo Motors – Salient Features, Applications and Comparison of all these Drives, Mechanical design of various components of a robotic system.

Elements of the Input box: environment sensors and human input Device, Switches and push-buttons, keypad, joystick, pointing devices, touch sensors, environment sensors for temperature, light, humidity, sound, magnetic field, distance, force/strain, position. Need for analog processing and filtering of sensor outputs, Elements of the Output box: Actuators and human interface elements. LEDs (with multiplexing), LCD, sound, temperature (heating/cooling), position (motors), flow etc. , Micro-controller based Design Fundamentals - Reset Circuitry, Clocking options with dynamic clock scaling, RTC Interfacing, Watchdog and brownout. Peripheral interfacing -ADC, UART (RS232, RS422, RS485), SPI, I2C, CAN. Timer and counter modes. PWM, Data storage using SD-card, serial Flash memory.

Historical Perspective of Path Planning & Motion Planning of Robots, Path Planning of Serial-chain Static Robots, Introduction to Configuration Space Method used in Robot Path Planning, Generation of Configuration Space Maps in 2-D Robotic Environment, Configuration Space Maps for Higher Dimensional Robots, Algorithmic Search Process for Robot Path Planning, Artificial Intelligence-based Algorithms for Robot Motion Planning, Introduction to Various Algorithmic Path Planning, Techniques for Static Robots, Robot Path Planning using Visibility Graph, Voronoi Diagram & Potential Field - based Robot Path Planning, Robot Path Planning & Robot Programming: Industrial Case-study

Getting Started with ROS: Functionality and operation of ROS, Installation and Launching of ROS, Creating a catkin workspace, ROS Packages and manifest, ROS Nodes topics and messages, Turtlesim – the first ROS robot simulation, Movement of the turtle by publishing /turtle1/cmd_vel, Movement of the turtle using the keyboard or joystick, Parameter Server of Turtlesim, ROS services to move the turtle, ROS commands summary, Creating First Two-Wheeled ROS Robot (in Simulation),Creating and building a ROS package, Gazebo (Installation, Launching and other activities),Verification a Gazebo model, Viewing the URDF in Gazebo, Tweaking and moving the model around, Other ROS simulation environments, Driving Around with TurtleBot, Introducing TurtleBot 3,Loading TurtleBot 3 simulator software, Launching TurtleBot 3 simulator in Gazebo, Hardware assembly and testing, Loading TurtleBot 3 software (Installation and setup),Networking TurtleBot 3 and the remote computer, Introducing rqt tool solving the real TurtleBot 3,TurtleBot's Odometry, TurtleBot 3 automatic docking, Introducing TurtleBot 3,Loading TurtleBot 3 simulation software, Launching TurtleBot 3 simulation in rviz, Launching TurtleBot 3 simulation in Gazebo, Hardware assembly and testing, Loading TurtleBot 3 software, Networking TurtleBot 3 and the remote computer, Moving the real TurtleBot 3, Navigating the World with TurtleBot

Introduction Digital Image Processing, Camera basic, Design of Illumination system, Image formation, Image sensors, Image Sampling and quantization, Image type ,Image format and pixel relationship, Image Enhancement techniques, Colour models (advantages and disadvantages),Image Segmentation, Image Morphology, Texture Analysis, Image Processing - Hands-on Using Standard Tools

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Humanoid Robot: Design aspects of basic humanoid robot using Raspberry Pi, How to code the servo motors using Python/C programming and move in different angles, Get to know how the Robot can capture images when the obstacle is detected, Wirelessly control the Robot and execute the programs remotely using SSH terminal Using CUDA/Python,