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Program Requirements
Not offered until further notice.
Students in this concentration take six courses in the area of control, robotics, and/or CAD/CAM.
Students should complete a Course Authorization Form, available from the Student Affairs Office (Engineering Student Centre) or from the Undergraduate Program Coordinator, indicating their intention to take the concentration.
Required Courses
12 credits
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MECH 513 Control Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Stability: Lyapunov, Routh-Hurwitz and Nyquist criteria. Root-locus design of feedback control systems. Controller design based on polynomial methods and internal model principle. Frequency-response controller design. State feedback control. Controllability, observability, LQR, full- and reduced-order observer design. Robust control design. Optimization problems in control.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Sharf, Inna (Winter)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 412 or MECH 419.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 413.
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MECH 554 Microprocessors for Mechanical Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Digital logic and circuits - asynchronous and synchronous design. Microcontroller architectures, organization and programming - assembly and high-level. Analog/ digital/hybrid sensors and actuators. Sensing and conditioning subsystems. Interfacing issues. Real-time issues. Operator interfaces. Laboratory exercises on digital logic design, interfacing and control of peripherals with a final team project.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (2-3-4)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 383 and COMP 208
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MECH 557 Mechatronic Design (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Team project course on the design, modelling, model validation, and control of complete mechatronic systems, constructed with modern sensors, actuators, real-time operating systems, embedded controllers, and intelligent control.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): ECSE 461, MECH 383 and (MECH 412 or MECH 419)
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MECH 572 Introduction to Robotics (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Overview of the field of robotics. Kinematics, statics, singularity analysis and workspace of serial robots with decoupled architecture. Direct and inverse kinematics and dynamics. Algorithms for manipulator kinematics and dynamics.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Angeles, Jorge (Fall)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisites (Undergraduate): MATH 271 and MECH 220 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 573
Complementary Courses
6 credits from the following:
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MECH 528 Product Design (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : A study of the design issues present in product life cycle demands. Computer-aided systems. Rapid prototyping. Design for manufacturability. Integration of mechanics, electronics and software in products. Effect on design of product cost, maintainability, recycling, marketability.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Segall, Angelo (Fall)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Permission of the instructor
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MECH 541 Kinematic Synthesis (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : The role of kinematic synthesis within the design process. Degree of freedom. Kinematic pairs and bonds. Groups and subgroups of displacements. Applications to the qualitative synthesis of parallel-kinematics machines with three and four degrees of freedom. Function, motion and path generation problems in planar, spherical and spatial four-bar linkages. Extensions to six-bar linkages. Cam mechanisms.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 309 or MATH 317 or permission of the instructor.
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MECH 573 Mechanics of Robotic Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Manipulator performance and design. Pick-and-place and continuous-path operations. Computation of rigid-body angular velocity and acceleration from point-data measurements. Inverse kinematics of serial manipulators with coupled architectures; kinetostatics of multifingered hands and walking machines. Kinematics and dynamics of parallel manipulators and wheeled mobile robots.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 309 or MATH 317, and MECH 572 or permission of the instructor.
- Since the course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students, and B- is the minimum passing mark for graduate students, this minimum mark will be relaxed for undergraduates. The regulations applicable to undergraduates will apply accordingly.
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MECH 576 Geometry in Mechanics (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Homogeneous vectors related to projective geometry and to linear, vector, matrix and symbolic algebra. Applications in mechanics. Pluecker and dual quaternions in statics and robot kinematics. Reducing systems of polynomials. Camera aided metrology. Case studies of solved and unsolved problems.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisites (Undergraduate): MATH 271, MECH 220, MECH 289 and MECH 314 or permission of the instructor.
Faculty of Engineering—2010-2011 (last updated Jan. 19, 2011) (disclaimer)