- Docente: Andrea Zucchelli
- Credits: 9
- SSD: ING-IND/14
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Andrea Zucchelli (Modulo 1) Andrea Zucchelli (Modulo 3) Juri Belcari (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 3) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Automation Engineering (cod. 0920)
Learning outcomes
The purpose of the course is to provide the theoretical and practical bases for Automatic Machinery. Students acquire knowledge about the basic concepts of automation and in-depth knowledge on the architectures which are used to design and to manufacture the Automatic Machines. It also teaches the basic concepts related to the implementation of systems and the motion laws to be assigned to actuators. Finally, the students acquire basic knowledge about fluid based actuation systems (pneumatic and hydraulic).
Course contents
The course is organized into four main sections:
1. Architectures of Automatic Machines
2. Accessory systems for the construction and the operations of Automatic Machines
3. Actuation Systems for Automatic Machines
4. Introduction to the Fluid based Actuation Systems for Automatic MachinesReadings/Bibliography
1. Lectures notes
2. Luigi Biagiotti · Claudio Melchiorri, Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots, Springer-Verlag, 2008
3. Geoffrey Boothroyd, Peter Dewhurst, Winston A. Knight, Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
4. Geoffrey Boothroyd, Assembly Automation and Product Design, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005
5. Stephen J. Derby, Design of Automatic Machinery, Marcel Dekker, 2005
6. A.A.V.V., Advances in Future Manufacturing Engineering, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015
7. A.A.V.V., Future Mechatronics and Automation, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015
8. Bruno Lotter, Manufacturing Assembly Handbook, Butterworths, 1986
9. Marco Fortis, Monica Carminati, The Automatic Packaging Machinery Sector in Italy and Germany, Springer, 2015Teaching methods
Classroom teaching with the use of slides and audiovisual.
The course is developed both by providing theoretical concepts and by doing in classroom and giving, as homework, theoretical and practical exercises related to the construction aspects of Automatic Machines and related to actuation systems.Assessment methods
Written and oral examination with discussion of the assigned exercises.
Teaching tools
PowerPoint presentations and audiovisual.
Office hours
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