Robotics

UNIT-I

1) What is a robot and explain its various parts

2) What is meant by work volume?

3) What is the historical background of robotics?

4) How are robots classified?

5) List out advantages and limitations of robots

6) What are socio-economic implications of robot?

7) Explain various robotic joints

8) What is meant by direct kinematics and inverse kinematics

9) Explain D-H transformations

10) What is robot dynamics?

11) What is meant by via points?

12) What is meant by collision free path planning

13) Discuss the need of higher order quadratic forms of robot

trajectories

14) Explain liner parabolic blend path

UNIT-II

1) Explain how robotic motion is controlled

2) Explain different kinds of drives used in robots

3) Explain different kinds of liner and rotary actuators

4) Explain different types of control valves used for the control of

a. Flow
 b. Pressure

c. Direction

5) What are different pneumatic conditioners? Explain

6) What are servo valves? Explain

7) What are different pneumatic valves?

8) Describe different kinds of motors used in electric drives

9) How are end effectors designed?

10) What are different kinds of end effectors?

11) Explain vacuum, magnetic, and pneumatic grippers

12) Explain construction and working of mechanical grippers

13) Describe the different types of air compressors

14) Write short notes on stepper motors

15) Explain briefly different drive mechanisms

UNIT-III

1) Characteristics of sensors
2) Different velocity and displacement sensors
3) Explain about tactile and proximity sensors
4) What are different kinds of range sensors
5) Describe different joint, force and torque sensors
6) What is meant by vision system
7) Explain image gripping and image processing
8) Describe the procedure for image analysis
9) What are the different image enhancement techniques
10) Explain noise reduction
11) Explain training of vision systems
12) What are histograms and images
13) What is meant by thresholding
14) Explain edge detection
15) Explain different applications of robots

UNIT-IV

1) Briefly describe the procedure for robot work cell design

2) Write a short note on machine robot interference in robot work cell

3) What are safety precautions to be taken in design of work cells

4) What are different applications of robots in industrial and non

industrial fields

5) Write a short notes on robot cycle time analysis

UNIT-V

1) What are the methods for robot programming?

2) Explain task level languages
3) Describe the different types of motion interpolation
4) What are the different techniques in A.I?
5) Write a brief note on A.I
6) What are problem reduction and solution methodologies in A.I?
7) Explain the application of AI in robotics
8) Explain the different levels of robot programming languages