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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

Other