I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Robotic Arc Welding

2. Course Prefix & Number:
RAST 2134

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 3

Lecture Hours: 1

Lab Hours: 4

4. Course Description:

This course is designed to give students hands-on understanding of robotic arc welding. Topics to be covered include safely jogging the robot, setting up welding equipment, robotic welding teach pendent, robotic welding parameters, motion types, programming examples, saving and backing up robot programs and controller files. Students will develop robotic welding programs using robot controllers application software and hardware.

5. Placement Tests Required:

Accuplacer (specify test):

No placement tests required

Score:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

8. Prerequisite (Entry) Skills:
Basic computer skills

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

III. Course Purpose

1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):

Robotic Welding Certificate (DOL Grant AME)

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Demonstrate written communication skills	develop written robotic program flow charts
Analyze and follow a sequence of operations	perform robotic welding controller operations and programming manual procedures

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Safely jog robot within the work envelope of the welding cell
• Use the robot teach pendent to create new programs
• Use the robot teach pendent to modify existing programs
• Use the teach pendent to edit existing programs
• Recover from controller or robot programming faults
• Recover from controller servo faults
• Set up welding power supply
• Set up robot controller safety devices
• Follow a robot programming and operations welding procedures
• Use different coordinate systems
• Define the components of robotic welding cell

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. Robot safety
2. Robotic welding cell safety devices
3. Robot coordinate systems
4. Setting robot tool frames
5. Setting robot tool center points
6. Setting robotic welding parameters
7. Setting robot controller voltage parameters
8. Setting robot controller current parameters
9. Setting robot tcp feedrate
10. Setting weld schedules
11. Setting  weave patterns
12. Changing weld schedules
13. Changing weave patterns
14. Controlling weld fixtures
15. Testing weld programs in simulation mode
16. Testing weld programs in step mode
17. Testing weld programs in automatic operation
18. Cell fault conditions
19. Weld cell fault recovery procedures
20. Welding robot/controller/welding poweer supply/wire feed maintenance procedures

2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions

1. Robot safety
2. Robot/welding error recovery
3. Developing robot welding programs
4. Set up robot welding cell macros
5. Develop welding programs for unconditional operation
6. Developing welding programs for conditional operation
7. Develop welding programs assigned to UOP
8. Develop welding programs for horizontal welding
9. Develop welding programs for vertical welding
10. Develop welding programs for circular welding
11. Develop welding programs assigned to program macro
12. Develop welding programs for multi-pass
13. Develop welding programs for skip welding
14. Develop welding programs that use different weld schedules 
15. Saving robot programs to external devices
16. Downloading programs from external devices
17. System variable settings 
18. Develop program with different motion commands
19. Develop programs with different motion termination types
20. Robot welding power supply and wire feeder torch maintence