Description
The “Robotics and Automation” (RA) master’s program aims to train specialists in the field of Systems Engineering able to meet the demands of the labour market for highly qualified personnel in the new digital technologies of robotics and automation of the ‘Industry of the Future’.
Relevance to the labour market
The educational curriculum of the master’s program aims to ensure the competencies for two classes of occupational profiles:
- Automation: process analyst, automation solution developer, designer, consultant, implementation specialist, architect of cyber-physical production systems, researcher
- Robotics: expert in robotic processes and services, developer of industrial applications with robots and artificial vision systems, integrator of robots in production structures, consultant, and researcher.
Required knowledge
Sensors and transducers, the basics of automatic control, computer control systems, numerical devices, programmable logic controllers, and programming languages.
Competences and skills acquired
The skills acquired will allow the selection, development and application of scientific concepts and methods in interdisciplinary fields: Automation (alerts to reality, ensuring optimization and prediction of the state and performance evolution, robust) and Intelligent Robots (adaptable to the environment, cooperating with the human operator in conditions of safety and learning from it, with the autonomy of decisions). The program ensures acquiring research, design, and application development skills.
Year I, Semester I
| Course 1: | Robot Motion Planning and Control |
| Course 2: | Guidance Vision in Robotics |
| Course 3: | Mechatronics Engineering |
| Course 4: | Scientific research and practice |
| Course 5 (elective): | Embedded Systems for Industrial ControlMachine Learning Methods and Applications |
| Facultative course: | Design and management of educational programs |
Year I, Semester II
| Course 1: | Mobile Robots and Collective Control |
| Course 2: | Multi-Agent Systems and Programming |
| Course 3: | Smart Robot Learning |
| Course 4: | Scientific research and practice |
| Course 5 (elective): | Cloud Manufacturing Models and Services in Robotics Intelligent Image Processing |
| Facultative courses: | Psychopedagogy of adolescents, young people and adults Counselling and guidance |
Year II, Semester I
| Course 1: | Natural Human-Robot Interaction |
| Course 2: | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
| Course 3: | Industrial IoT and Big Data Integration |
| Course 4: | Scientific research and practice |
| Course 5 (elective): | Robots in Industrial Applications Intelligent Manufacturing Systems |
| Facultative courses: | Psychopedagogy of adolescents, young people and adults Counselling and guidance |
Year II, Semester II
| Course 1: | Scientific Research and Authorship |
| Course 2: | Artificial Ethics and Legal Issues in Robotics |
Research Themes
- Real-time multitasking control of robot movement;
- Hybrid position-effort control of the non-free movement of robots;
- Multi-agent systems for swarm robotic systems;
- Emulating human manipulative gestures with high dexterity in robotics through artificial vision techniques;
- Development of Digital Twin models for robots;
- Inter-robot cooperation;
- Holonic production management systems;
- Cloud Services in Robotics.
Programming languages and technologies used
Programming languages: JAVA/JADE, Python, ROS/Gazebo, Erlang, Netlogo, ILOG CPLEX OPL, RAPID, V+, C++, Arduino IDE, Matlab/Simulink, Cognex In-Sight, OpenCV/OpenGL, TensorFlow, V-REP Robot Simulator, ISO Gcode;
Technologies: Watson ML, Digital Twin, IoT Edge Analytics, MQTT for IoT, Big Data Analytics / Streaming, LoRa, OPC-UA, SCADA, PROMIA
Other information
Teaching language: English
Partner companies (supporting the program in any form): Schaeffler Romania, ABB Romania, OMRON / Adept Romania, East Electric, Dacia Renault Automobile SA, INDAS Tech (Rockwell Automation Romania), Siemens Romania, IBM Romania, Robcon srl (Cloos Romania ), Oracle Romania
International partnerships:
- Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK;
- University of Nantes, France; University of Porto, Portugal;
- Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France;
- University of Lorraine, Nancy, France;
- University of Valencia, Spain