I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Introduction to Automation

2. Course Prefix & Number:
RAST 1104

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 2

Lecture Hours: 1

Lab Hours: 2

4. Course Description:

This course is an introduction to start-up, operation and simple programming of industry standard robots in the robot lab. Additional topics include robot safety, robot types, robot move types, program structure, motion control, decision making, peripheral control, robot control modes, and program examples.

5. Placement Tests Required:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

There are no prerequisites for this course.

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):

Robotics Automated Systems, AAS & Diploma
Applied Engineering Technology, AAS

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Demonstrate written communication skills	develop programming flow charts and programming procedures
Analyze and follow a sequence of operations	follow operational robot controller procedures
Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations	demonstrate correct robot safety procedures

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

• define right hand rule
• define robot I/O types
• develop user programs
• define robot motion types
• define robot soft and hard limits
• define robot EOAT setup and control
• develop conditional programs
• edit programs
• develop conditional programs
• develop unconditional programs
• define motion parameters

V. Topical Outline

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

1. Lecture Sessions

1. Robot safety practices
2. Right hand rule
3. Robot coordinate systems
4. E-Stop use and recovery
5. I/O structure
6. Program data types
7. Program conditional statements
8. Program flow charting
9. Pendent use and functions
10. Program registers
11. Program macros
12. Developing conditional program branching
13. Robot and digital I/O
14. Robot System I/O
15. Editing programs
16. Robot types
17. Major and minor axis

2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions

1. Practicing robot lab safety procedures
2. Jogging robot using teach pendent
3. Creating programs
4. Setting up and assigning EOAT control
5. Creating conditional I/O control programs
6. Creating relational operators control programs
7. Editing programs
8. Creating macros
9. Using right hand rule
10. Creating welding programs
11. Creating pick and place program
12. Creating programs using direct and indirect register programs