MECH 573 — Mechanics of Robotic Systems

Manipulator performance and design. Pick-and-place and continuous-path operations. Computation of rigid-body angular velocity and acceleration from point-data measurements. Inverse kinematics of serial manipulators with coupled architectures; kinetostatics of multifingered hands and walking machines. Kinematics and dynamics of parallel manipulators and wheeled mobile robots.

• Credits: 3
• Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Prerequisite: MECH 309 or MATH 317, and MECH 572 or permission of the instructor.