Syllabus for
Bachelor of Technology (Robotics and Mechatronics)
Academic Year  (2023)

This programme integrates Robotics and Mechatronics. Robotics emphasise on synergistic integration of mechanical structures, mechanisms, electrical and electronic components, electromechanical sensors and actuators, microcontrollers, and programming, whereas Mechatronics, covers synergistic integration of mechanical engineering, control theory, computer science, and electronics to manage complexity, uncertainty, and communication in engineered systems. Programme is offered in multi-disciplinary nature, which combines mechanical, electronics and computing engineering and will add versatility to the graduates' capabilities. Graduates will be able to adapt flexibly to a wide range of industries, and make contributions in developing new technologies and pioneering new approaches in production. Graduates will also be able to upgrade their knowledge and skills by pursuing their studies in local or overseas universities. The programme prepares graduates to learn how to build robots and gadgets as required in specialized areas such as automation and robotics, wafer fabrication, aerospace or biomedical engineering.
The B.Tech degree in Robotics and Mechatronics will provide a curriculum spread through class room learning and experiential learning through hands on, Internship, and project work. Students will learn fundamental theory, modeling methods, hardware components, interfacing requirements, simulation and programming tools, and practical applications of mechatronics and robotics. Specifically, real-world mechatronics and robotics systems will provide an avenue for physics-based system modeling. In addition to mechanical aspects, students will learn about building-blocks of mechatronics and robotics, i.e., sensing, actuation, computing technologies, and algorithms, thus being introduced to real-world tools used by practicing professionals. Having learned the fundamental theory, modeling, hardware, and programming tools through core courses, students can specialize in one of three areas, namely, assistive mechatronic and robotic technologies; mobile robotics; or microrobotics.

Programme Outcome/Programme Learning Goals/Programme Learning Outcome:

Programme Specific Outcome:

Programme Educational Objective:

PO4: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.

PO5: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.

PO6: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice

PO7: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.

PO8: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.

PO9: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.

PO10: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.

PO11: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one?s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.

Understanding and application of MATLAB and TINKERCAD for biological analysis which would results in better healthcare and any engineer, irrespective of the parent discipline (mechanical, electrical, civil, computer, electronics, etc.,) can use the disciplinary skills toward designing/improving biological systems. This course is designed to convey the essentials of human physiology.

The course will introduce to the students the various fundamental concepts in MATLAB and TINKERCAD for numerical analysis and circuit design using arduino.

CO2Perform basic image processing on RGB images pertaining to medical data using MATLABL4

CO3Perform analysis on biological parameters using TinkerCad and design mini projects applicable for healthcare and biosensing.L4

To understand the scope and importance of environmental science towards developing a conscious community for environmental issues, both at global and local scale.  

To enable the students to find the Fourier series and harmonic analysis of a periodic function, solve the boundary value problems using Fourier series, ordinary differential equations by series solution method and describe functionals and solve variational problems.

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is an economically viable alternative to conventional manufacturing technologies for producing highly complex parts. The main objective of this course is to acquaint students with the concept of AM, various AM technologies, selection of materials for AM, modeling of AM processes, and their applications in various fields. The course will also cover AM process plan including building strategies and post-processing.

This course will enable students to:

●     Recall and Recognize construction and characteristics of JFETs and MOSFETs and differentiate with BJT

●     Demonstrate and Analyze Operational Amplifier circuits and their applications

●     Describe and Design Decoders, Encoders, Digital multiplexers, Adders and Subtractors, Binary comparators, Latches and Master-Slave Flip-Flops.

●     Describe, Design and Analyze Synchronous and Asynchronous Sequential circuits..

●     Explain and design registers and Counters, A/D and D/A converters.

At the end of the course, the students would be able to  

●       To impart knowledge on the performance characteristics, speed control and starting methods of DC and AC motors.

●       To impart knowledge on the basic of selection of drive for a given application.

●       To impart knowledge on the concept of controlling the speed of DC and AC motor using Solid state converters.

●       To prepare the students to understand, demonstrate and analyze the concepts of DC and AC Motors.

●       To prepare the students to understand, demonstrate and analyze the concepts of DC Drive.

• To prepare the students to understand, demonstrate and analyze the concepts of AC Drive

At the end of the course, the students would be able to  

1. To introduce the fundamentals of robotics and automation

2. To provide knowledge about the components of robotics

3. To deal with the applications of robotics and automation

This course aims at providing fundamental understanding about the basic elements of a mechatronics system, interfacing, and its practical applications.

This mandatory course is aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of the different facets of Cyber Security.  In addition, the course will detail into specifics of Cyber Security with Cyber Laws both in Global and Indian Legal environments

This paper deals with the various organizational behaviours like learning, perception, motivation and method of managing stress and conflicts and the basic principles of communication.

Course objectives: 

•To introduce the Industry experience to student in product design and developments.

•To know the stages involved in any product design and development.

•To develop the student’s skills to solve the problems facing while geometry modelling and FE modelling.

•To guide the students in selection of geometry for its validation for required application.

•To enhance the problem analysis knowledge in modelling and analysis.

•To improve the knowledge in identify the problem and selection of analysis method and hence to validate the output of CAE tools.

To understand the basic concept of data structures for storage and retrieval of ordered or unordered data. Data structures include: arrays, linked lists, binary

trees, heaps, and hash tables.

At the end of the course, the students would be able to  

1.       To provide the overview of embedded system design principles

2.       To understand the concepts of real time operating systems

3.    To provide exposure to embedded system development tools with hands-on experience in using basic programming techniques.

At the end of the course the students should be able to appreciate the basic principles and understand the function of various type of pumps and machineries and flow of liquid through pipes. Basics of Engineering elements like springs and beams must have bean made clear so that they will be able to design them.

1. To understand the kinematics and rigid-body dynamics of kinematically driven machine components.

2. To understand the motion of linked mechanisms in terms of the displacement, velocity and acceleration at any point in a rigid link.

3. To be able to design some linkage mechanisms and cam systems to generate specified output motion.

4. To understand the kinematics of gear trains.

At the end of the course, the students would be able to  

1. Understand the important libraries of Python, and its recommended programming styles and

idioms.

2. Learn core Python scripting elements such as variables and flow control structures.
3. Develop applications using Python for robotics.

Mobile robots are now enabling human beings to physically reach and explore unchartered territories in the Universe. Be a place as distant as Mars, in abysmal depths of ocean, or shrouded by thick glaciers of Antarctic, mobile robots help exploring everything; yet this is just the beginning. Even in day to day life autonomous cars hold a potential to revolutionize transportation and domestic mobile robots help humans in cleaning, elderly help, etc. National defence is an area replete with the use of mobile robots. This course will present various aspects of design, fabrication, motion planning, and control of intelligent mobile robotic systems. The focus of the course is distributed equally on the computational aspects and practical implementation issues and thereby leads to a well-rounded training. The course will give students an opportunity to design and fabricate a mobile robotic platform and program it to apply learned theoretical concepts in practice as a semester long class project.

Finite element method {FEM} is a numerical technique for finding approximate solutions to boundary value problems for partial differential equations.Itusessubdivisionofawholeproblemdomainintosimplerparts,called finiteelements,andvariationalmethodsfromthecalculusofvariationstosolvethe problem by minimizing an associated error function. Analogous to the idea that connecting many tiny straight lines can approximate a larger circle, FEM encompasses methods for connecting many simple element equations over many smallsubdomains,namedfiniteelements,toapproximateamorecomplexequation

Objective of this paper is to provide managing solid wastes. It is designed as a source of information on solid waste management, including the Principles of Solid waste management, Processing and Treatment, Final disposal, Recycle and Reuse.

Course would help to understand the scope and relevance of Multi Disciplinary approach in Disaster Management in a dynamic  world and to realize the responsibilities of individuals and institutions for effective disaster response and disaster risk reduction

1) Discuss the students on advanced concepts of Electrical Conduction, Modern Theory of Solids, and fundamental properties of Semiconductors.

i)  Students will learn (a) the principle, construction, and operation of basic Semiconductor Devices such as Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), Solar Cells, and transistors.

ii) It describes the opportunities to learn (a) advanced concepts governing electronic materials properties of inorganic conductors, semiconductors and insulators and (b) how these electronic materials can be combined in wide range of device applications from transistors to energy conversion.

iii) To illustrate the current state-of-the-art by reference to journal articles and to examples of actual devices and production processes in use today.

This course is aimed to create awareness on the rights and responsibilities as a citizen of India and to understand the administrative structure, legal system in India.

To enable the students to describe the fundamentals of statistics, estimate best fit curve, correlation and regression through data analysis, develop a deep understanding of axioms, random variables and probability functions, test the hypothesis for small and large samples by various statistical tools.

This course provides a strong foundation of fundamental concepts in Artificial Intelligence. To provide a basic exposition to the goals and methods and to enable the student to apply these techniques in applications which involve perception, reasoning and learning

·       This Course is offered for cadets of NCC who have successfully completed their B- Certificate.

·       This Course is offered for the NCC cadets in the Open Elective course offered by the department during the 5^th Semester.

·        This course can be selected if and only if the cadet Successfully Completes the ‘B’- Certificate exam that is conducted centrally oraganized by the NCC Directorate.

At the end of the course, the students would be able  

●     To deal with basics concepts for selection of sensors and the signal conditioning necessary to include these in a data acquisition system.

●     To investigate the analogue to digital and digital to analogue conversion principles and their practical applications for data acquisition and control.

●     To learn about the selection of output drivers and devices

●     To learn about the machine vision systems and its application.

CO2: Choose the type of signal conditioning circuits to be used for a specific sensor.(L3).

CO3: Discuss the data conversion circuits and the constraints involved in their design.(L3CO4:Examine the requirements for interfacing circuit design.(L3).

CO5: Develop simple working model of a complete data acquisition system.(L2).

CO6. Explain the basics of machine vision and their operation.(L2)

At the end of the course, the students would be able

1. To familiarize with the basic concepts of industrial automation.

2. To acquaint with the concept of low cost automation with pneumatic and hydraulic systems.

3. To familiarize with the elements of electrical control systems.

4. To acquaint with the concepts related to fluid power.

CO2. Illustrate the working principles of fluid power accessories like pumps, motors. (L2)

CO3. Analyse pneumatic and hydraulic circuits of medium complexity. (L4)

CO4. Illustrate the working of control and regulation elements used in pneumatic and hydraulic circuits. (L2)

CO5. Demonstrate the use of electrical and electronics control in pneumatic and hydraulic circuits. (L2)

●     The student shall gain appreciation and understanding of the design function in mechanical engineering, the steps involved in designing and the relation of design activity with manufacturing activity.

●     The student shall be able to choose proper materials to different machine elements depending on their physical and mechanical properties. Thus he shall be able to apply the knowledge of material science in real life usage.

●     Student shall gain a thorough understanding of the different types of failure modes and criteria. He will be conversant with various failure theories and be able to judge which criterion is to be applied in which situation.

●     Student shall gain design knowledge of the different types of elements used in the machine design process. E.g., fasteners, shafts, couplings etc. and will be able to design these elements for each application.

CO2: Analyze the different types of failure modes and will be conversant with various failure theories and be able to judge which criterion is to be applied in which situation. (L2).

CO3: Apply the knowledge of the curved beams and cylinders in determining the stresses developed for its real time usage. (L3).

CO4: Select the type of spring required for the application and will be able to calculate dimensions of spring. (L3).

CO5: Design the different types of elements used in the machine design process. Eg. Riveted joint, Welded Joints etc. and will be able to design these elements for each application. (L3). 

At the end of the course, the students would be able to

●     Simulation is used intensively in a field of design and development.

●     Students will understand how to prepare the basic model and how to perform simulation on it by taking various assumption.

●     Students can apply the knowledge they have obtained while studying FEM and Mechanical Vibration.

CO 2: Applying the boundary conditions on the given system. (L2)

CO3: Solving Engineering Mechanics Problems by using Commercial FEM Tools. (L5) 

At the end of the course, the students would be able to

●     Simulation is used intensively in a field of design and development.

●     Students will understand how to prepare the basic model and how to perform simulation on it by taking various assumption.

●     Students can apply the knowledge they have obtained while studying FEM and Mechanical Vibration.

The mini project work extends for a single semester and exposes the student to develop and present his/her work related to specific topic. Student shall select the project topic in consultation with mentor/guide/supervisor to his/her area of specialization and work on it. Student will prepare a report outlining objective of the project work, importance of the study, review of literature published in the relevant field and possible areas for further work. The student shall present seminar on this report. 

This course will familiarize the students with the concept of corporate social responsibility. The evolution of CSR has far reaching consequences on the development sector in India. The collaboration of companies and NGOs with the community has initiated a new paradigm of change in the country. The students will have an overview of the theories and the frameworks developed in the area of CSR. The paper will discuss a few prominent case studies of CSR.

 Course Objectives 

• To understand the concept of CSR and the theoretical underpinnings.

• To understand the stakeholder approaches.

• To provide an experiential, integrative, substantive, and high quality experience surrounding issues of Corporate Social Responsibility

• To provide participating students with a truly unique curriculum experience with field experience.

This course provides students the insight on search engine optimization, social media and digital marketing techniques that helps them understand how each of the social media platforms works and how to strategize for any type of objectives from clients. Students will discover the potential of digital media space and will have hands on experience with different digital platforms.

Students will be able to develop a clear understanding of the principles and characteristics of communication in professional settings. They would have developed skills for grammatical accuracy, precise vocabulary, clear style and appropriate tone for formal, professional communication

Description:  Can understand and use familiar, everyday expressions and very simple sentences, which relate to the satisfying of concrete needs. Can introduce him/herself and others as well as ask others about themselves

Objectives

      Impart the language and through that insight into the country and the culture.

     Sensitize the students to the environment of a foreign country. To enable the students adapt to a new environment and culture.

Innovation is crucial to us and plays significant role in the growth of economy. Government policies and legal framework offer protection to new inventions and creative works. This course intends to equip students to understand the policies and procedures they may have to rely on for the purposed of protecting their inventions or creative works during the course of their study or employment.

The course consists of five units. Theories behind the protection of intellectual property and its role in promoting innovations for the progress of the society are the focus of first unit. Second unit deals with protection of inventions through patent regime in India touching upon the process of obtaining international patents. The central feature of getting patent is to establish new invention through evidence. This is done through maintaining experimental/lab records and other necessary documents. The process of creating and maintain documentary evidence is dealt in Unit 3. Computers have become an integral part of human life. Till 1980, computer related inventions were not given much importance and lying low but today they have assumed huge significance in our economy. Computer related inventions and their protection which requires special treatment under legal regimes are discussed in Unit 4. The last module deals with innovations in e- commerce environment.

A student successfully completing this course will be able to:

Explain basic terms and concepts in air transportation, including commercial, military, and general aviation; air traffic control. Identify on the parts of an aircraft, classify the aircraft types and Construct models of an Aircraft. Understand the types of Aero engines and analyse the impact of meteorology in Aviation.

1.     To understand various developmental changes that take place in human life and how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the social context consisting of actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

2.     To develop interpersonal awareness and skills, especially in the context of diversity and   difference

3.      To develop the psychosocial skills required in the professional world

4.     To introduce the students to the existing theory and research in the past and contemporary social settings comprising viz, the intra-individual, inter-individual, and social factors that influence individual and group behavior.

Course Description
Data Analysis using SPSS is specially designed to provide the requisite knowledge and skills in Data Analytics. The course covers concepts of Basics about Statistics, Data handling, Data Visualization, Statistical analysis, etc. This course will build a base for advance data analysis skills.

Course objectives

After the completion of the course, you should be able to:

a. Understand basic concepts of statistics and computer software SPSS
b. Select appropriate Statistical test for particular type of data
c. Recognize and interpret the output from statistical analysis

Course Description:

Developing a successful digital marketing strategy and implementation is both an art and science. It involves in-depth knowledge of dynamics of new media (Social Media, Mobile) and utilizing the right resources and marketing skills to design and launch successful customer engagement campaigns. Digital Marketing course has been designed to help students to understand both functional and management roles required to plan and execute effective Digital Marketing campaigns. The course also helps students gain an insight how to plan and implement Digital Marketing initiatives

Course Objectives:

·         To apply the basics of digital marketing in the contemporary business scenario

·         To utilize google ads for promotional activities

·         To contrast various social media marketing platforms and activities 

·         To analyse the search engine optimization and search engine marketing strategies

To explain analytics pertaining to digital marketing initiatives

The course will develop the knowledge and skills required to write content for digital media. Students will learn how to craft writing for different areas of the media by focusing on genres such as profiles, informative pieces, articles and content pieces. Students will work on pitching and marketing ideas, discuss topics such as timelines, word counts and deadlines. The course will also examine the principles of reporting and the legal and ethical issues associated with content writing

The course intends to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the nature of digital content. The course will acquaint students with the techniques of writing simple but polished digital content. The subject will develop creativity in writing and imaginative approaches to digital content writing. The paper will help students understand the mechanics of content writing

The course introduces the art of photographic image making and printing. You will learn to see and appreciate light in a new way, learn to see and design shapes in the frame, and you will learn how to make fine prints. In this course, you will learn how to properly expose the camera, how to develop good images, and to make beautiful exhibition prints. This is not merely a technical course however the most important thing you can bring away from this course is a new sense of seeing. To be able to have a finer appreciation of light in its myriad manifestations, to discover meaning in images rather than words, or most importantly, how to make images, important and powerful in their own right, rather than merely “take pictures” is the main goal of this course.

In this course the students are introduced different aspects of acting such as creating a character,

analyzing a script, working on voice and developing body language. At the end of the course the learners

will perform a monologue.

The course aims at the study and practice of Classical Acting. The development of individual imagination,

insight, skills and disciplines in the presentation of drama to audience.

• Develop skills in the analysis and interpretation of dramatic texts for performance

• Explore basic voice and movement skills to create dramatic effect on stage

• Understand the basic production processes

• To perform a monologue

To equip students with skill and aptitude for creativity and innovation through

1. Analyzing Problems:

To stimulate curiosity in students to identify the areas of gaps and opportunities and solutions that can be provided

2. Creating Ideas:

To stimulate creativity in students to come up with ideas for the areas of gaps and opportunities

3. To understand the creative process: Smart storming 

4. Engineering Solutions: To understand Proof of Concept, Minimum Viable Proposition, and the Rapid Iteration Process

The course will develop the skills required to represent elements of nature and surrounding objects. Students will learn how to use the appropriate medium for representing their thought process. The course will examine the representation skills through exercises on sketching and rendering.

Course Description:

Throughout the course students will work on three different challenges; one focused on product design, one focused on service design and one focused on systems or business design. By starting with a very tangible challenge around product design, students will be able to hone their skills in the process before moving into more complex challenges around business and systems level design.

The course will be teamwork-oriented, but students will also complete readings and independent activities that support the group work and ensure individual depth of knowledge.

Course objectives:  

l Expose students to the design process as a tool for innovation.

l Develop students’ professional skills in client management and communication.

l Demonstrate the value of developing a local network and assist students in making lasting connections with the business community.

l Students develop a portfolio of work to set them apart in the job market.

l Provide an authentic opportunity for students to develop teamwork and leadership skills.

The objective is to transform product ideas into viable products: hand sketching; fundamental engineering design principles and procedures; design, analysis and optimization of parts using CAD, CAM, CAE technologies; implementation of additive manufacturing; and reverse engineering complete processes.

The course should enable the student

1. To understand the representation of AI techniques, agents and agent environments.

2. To study about applications of AI and ML techniques

3. To know the knowledge representation and learning

4. To enable the students to apply these techniques in application which involve perception, reasoning and learning

5. To apply the working of Neural Network techniques

At the end of the course, the students would be able

●     To study the various parts of robots and fields of robotics.

●     To study about the localization, planning and navigation.

●     To study the control of robots for some specific applications.

●     To study about the humanoid robots.

1. To develop a habit of critical reflection for life-long learning in solving societal problems.

2. To work with a community and identify a specific need that can be addressed through Involvement and engineering practices.

The course should enable the students to:

∙ Understand system requirements for mobile applications

∙ Generate suitable design using specific mobile development frameworks

∙ Generate mobile application design

∙ Implement the design using specific mobile development frameworks

∙ Deploy the mobile applications in marketplace for distribution

The course should enable the students:

●        To know the basic knowledge about wireless sensor networks

●        To impart knowledge in networking using sensors

●        To know about the tools used in networking

●        To understand the basic in wireless architecture

●        To know about the different techniques used in networking

Course objectives:

The course should enable the students to:

1.  Implement and evaluate AI algorithms in Python language.

2.  Implement and evaluate ML algorithms in Python/Java programming language.

The aim of this course is to enable student to understand the complete dynamics of automotive electronics, design and implementation of the electronics that contributes to the safety of the automobiles, add-on features, and comforts. 

This course introduce battery chemistry, traction batter & regulation, parameter estimation, battery state estimation, protection and BMS

● To teach the fundamental concepts of control systems & mathematical modelling of system.

● To study the concept of time response and frequency response of the system.

● To teach the basics of stability analysis of the system.

To impart knowledge on

1. Properties and working of smart sensors.

2. Signal conditioning for sensors.

3. Smart Sensor and IoT Application.

To educate students a clear understanding of factors to be considered in designing parts and components with focus on manufacturability.

The course should enable the students:

1. To understand the principles of traction

2. To understand the characteristics of hybrid vehicles

3. To differentiate various motors and drives

4. To integrate various subsystems

5. To understand energy conservation principles in hybrid vehicles

The student should be made to:

● To illustrate the design and simulation of multiple actuator systems using pneumatic, electro-pneumatic and PLCs and enable the students to integrate various fringe conditions in multiple actuator systems.

● To design a system using PNEUMOSIM software.

● To design a Microcontroller kit with stepper motor and drive circuit using LABVIEW software.

● To expose the students in sensors/actuators interfaced with computers.

● To design a circuit using stepper motor.

Project work Phase-I includes identifying the problem, literature review and necessary ground work so as to continue it as Phase-II during VIII semester.

Presentations on these are to be given as per the schedule announced by the department.

• Internships are short-term work experiences that will allow a student to observe and participate in professional work environments and explore how his interests relate to possible careers. They are important learning opportunities trough industry exposure and practices.   More specifically, doing internships is beneficial because they provide the opportunity to:

• Get an inside view of an industry and organization/company

• Gain valuable skills and knowledge
• Make professional connections and enhance student's network
• Get experience in a field to allow the student to make a career transition

CO2: To develop a skill for handling multiple situations, practical problems, analysing team work and communication abilities. {L2}

CO3: To integrate theory with practice and carry out performance objectives on strong work ethics, persistence, adaptability and critical thinking. {L3} 

Students in a group of maximum four work on a project. The nature of project may be a design and fabrication, modellingand analysis, a case study, etc. The project may also be taken at an industry ot research organisation with the permissionfrom the department. The faculty member will be assigned as an internal guide who will monitor assess the progressregularly. A report on the project work in the approved format is to submitted on or before the dates announced by thedepartment. Examination requires demonstration of the project in the presence of an external examiner.

The course should enable the students to:

● Understand the basic concepts of process Planning and estimation and

● Apply different methods of cost estimation in different manufacturing shops

● Learn the concepts of process planning and cost estimation in competitive manufacturing systems and organizations.