KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS OF MACHINE SYSTEMS

ME 448

Integrated treatment of mathematical modeling and analysis of mechanical systems. Modeling of linear and nonlinear systems and their performance under transient, periodic and random loads.

ME 240

Rectilinear and curvilinear motion of a particle; force, mass, acceleration; work, potential, and kinetic energy; impulse and momentum; kinematics of rigid bodies; moving coordinate systems with relative motion; general planar rigid body kinematics and kinetics. Applications to linkages, cams and geared systems.

ME 751

Overview of techniques used to understand the time evolution (dynamics) of multi-body mechanical engineering systems. Modeling, equation formulation, and numerical methods used to determine the dynamics of multi-body mechanical systems. Rigid and flexible multi-body dynamics, friction and contact. Knowledge of Python or MATLAB strongly recommended. Knowledge of dynamic systems [such asM E 240or340] required.

ECE/ME 441

Robotics analysis and design, focusing on the analytical fundamentals specific to robotic manipulators. Serial chain robotic manipulator forward and inverse kinematics, differential kinematics, dynamics, trajectory generation, and controls. Builds on knowledge of high-level computational programming language such as Matlab.

ME 340

Mathematical modeling and analysis of dynamic systems with mechanical, thermal, and fluid elements. Topics: time domain solutions, analog computer simulation, linearization techniques, block diagram representation, numerical methods and frequency domain solutions. Students are assumed to have basic competence in particle and planar rigid body dynamics, matrix and vector algebra, and linear differential equations.