Second Semester

TED 953R MECHANICAL OPTIMUM DESIGN

Mathematical model of optimization design for machine; unconstrained and constrained optimization methods and the program design; discrete variable optimization methods in engineering and its program design; application of neural networks to optimization and global optimization.


TED 954R MECHANICS OF ROBOTIC SYSTEMS

Numerical methods for the kinematic inversion of serial manipulators; handling of redundancies and singularities; kinematics and dynamics of parallel manipulators; manipulator performance evaluation and optimization; multifingered hand grasping and manipulation; robot compliant and constrained motion; obstacle avoidance.


TED 956E FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

General description of approximated computing methods of thin plate shell; stable and unstable thermal fields; dynamic system problems; non-linear problems; multiple scale and averaging techniques; centre manifold theorem; normal form theorem.