Workstation Augmentation for an Undergraduate Industrial Robotics Laboratory

现有的工业机器人实验室为本科生提供三门必修课和六门技术选修课，并提供足够的教育示范和实验。重点一直放在工业机器人技术的基本原理上。通过增加诸如机器人解决方案的并行工程设计、计算机集成制造系统中机器人设备的集成、离线任务级别和面向应用的编程等主题，工作站扩充将允许增强实验室经验。以及计算机辅助设计基本的机器人应用程序，这些应用程序很难包括在大学实验室中，如焊接和绘画。所使用的设备包括带有集成CAD软件包的彩色图形工作站，用于机器人工作单元设计、运动学、动力学和图形仿真以及离线任务编程。

The existing Industrial Robotics Laboratory provides undergraduate students in three required courses and six technical elective courses with adequate educational demonstrations and experiments. The focus has been on the basic principles of industrial robotic technology. The workstation augmentation will permit enhancement of the laboratory experience through addition of topics such as concurrent engineering design of robotic solutions, integration of robotic devices in Computer Integrated Manufacturing systems, off-line task level and application oriented programming, and computer- aided design of essential robotic applications that are difficult to include in a university lab, such as welding and painting. The equipment used includes a color graphic work-station with an integrated CAD software package for robotic work-cell design, kinematic, dynamic and graphic simulation, and off-line task programming.