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Title:

Recycling A Discarded Robotic Arm For Automation Engineering Education

Authors:

Filippo Sanfilippo, Ottar L. Osen, Saleh Alaliyat

Published in:

 

(2014).ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014

 

ISBN: 978-0-9564944-8-1

 

28th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Brescia, Italy, May 27th – 30th, 2014

Citation format:

Filippo Sanfilippo, Ottar L. Osen, Saleh Alaliyat (2014). Recycling A Discarded Robotic Arm For Automation Engineering Education, ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014-0081

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2014-0081

Abstract:

Robotics and automation technology instruction is an important component of the industrial engineering education curriculum. Industrial engineering and automation departments must continuously develop and update their laboratory resources and pedagogical tools in order to provide their students with adequate and effective study plans. While acquiring stateof- the-art manufacturing equipment can be financially demanding, a great effort is made at Aalesund University College to provide the students with an improved hands-on automation integration experience without major capital investments. In particular, a strategy that consists of recycling electronic and robot disposals is adopted. Students are engaged in a real reverse engineering process and then challenged to find new possible applications and uses.

By adopting a pedagogical prospective, this paper introduces the design and implementation of a robot control system on a hardware platform based on a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). In particular, the controlled robot is a Sykerobot 600-5 manipulator with five degrees of freedom (DOFs) that was disposed of by the industry several years ago as electronic waste. Particular emphasis is placed on the pedagogical effectiveness of the proposed control architecture.

 

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