Programming in robotic and automation systemsLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You can design and analyze versatile integrations of automation systems and robotics applications
You understand the cell entities that combine robotics, numerics, and logic

Content

How can a robot serve other machines and automation systems?
How are integrations implemented in concrete terms and what are the risks?
How is the integration project managed?
How to simulate an entire robot cell?
How is the security of a cell or system entity maintained?

Qualifications

Basics of programming and telecommunications
Programmable logics and industrial buses
Control mechanism and kinematics in cobots/robots

Evaluation

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
b. evaluate information sources critically.
c. work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
d. evaluate operations in customer, user and target group situations.
e. choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
f. promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.
g. apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situa-tions.