JOHN A. MEECH
Professor of Mining Engineering and Director of CERM3
Course Notes for MINE 432: Robotics and Industrial Automation
Course Outline
Mid-Term Report Essay
Introduction - Process Control Introduction
Lecture 01 - Process Control Justification
Lecture 02 - Process Control Economics
EMJ Paper - Process Economics Paper
Assignment 1 - Economics of Pre-sorting
Lecture 03 - Elements of a Control System
Lecture 04 - Laplace Transforms and the Transfer Function
Assignment 2 - Classical Process Control Theory
Lecture 05 - Conventional Approach to Control System Algorithms
Granot Presentation - Comments on Agents and Robotic Systems
Lecture 06 - Modeling in Digital Form
Lecture 07A - Measuring Devices
Lecture 07B - Actuators and Final Control Elements
Lecture 08A - Second Order Systems
Lecture 08B - Frequency (or Steady State) Response of First and Second Order Systems
Lecture 09 - - Advanced Control Techniques
Lecture 09B - - Process Control Strategies
Lecture 10 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
ESMAN - Hypermanual on Expert Systems
Lecture 10A - Overview of Expert Systems
Lecture 11 - Fuzzy Logic Control
PowerPoint Presentation - Fuzzy Logic Control
Lecture 12 - Artificial Neural Networks
PowerPoint Presentation - Artificial Neural Networks
Lecture 13 - Genetic Algorithms
GA Paper - GA for the Unit Committment Problem
Lecture 14 - Real Time Supervisory Control
Glossary - Glossary of Terms
Evolution of Intelligent Systems in Mining
Fuzzy Logic Designer
Final Exam - 2008
MINEX: Mineral Identification
2011 Robotics Demonstration
2006 Mining Maze Competition Results
2006 Mining Final Robotics Competition Rules
Robot Competition - Results of the 2005 Robotics Competition
Robotic Demonstration Competition - - 2005 Pictures
University of Waterloo Robot Racer Videos - Snowfury
IEEE Presentation on Thunderbird Robotics
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