EGB320 Mechatronics Design 2
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| Unit code: | EGB320 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | EGB220 or EGB240 |
| Equivalent(s): | ENB329 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,680 |
| International unit fee | $5,784 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB320 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EGB220 (or EGB240 for EV01 Electrical students) |
| Equivalent: | ENB329 |
| Coordinator: | Chris Lehnert | c.lehnert@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Mechatronics Design 2 is a project unit with a hands-on application to advanced mechatronics principles. You will focus on the mechanics, electronics, and embedded software principles behind mechatronics. In this unit, you extend your knowledge and skills from Mechatronics Design 1 to the research, design, and implementation of an advanced mechatronic product to meet a customer's needs. You will further extend your skills and knowledge in mechatronics design in Mechatronics Design 3.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Use recognised project development and management techniques, at an intermediate level.
- Collaborate in a team to design, develop and demonstrate a complex mechatronics product at an intermediate level.
- Design an integrated mechatronic system in collaboration with a team by completing a full design cycle, including diagnosis and refinements, at a intermediate level.
- Individually design, create, and evaluate a sub-system of a complex integrated mechatronic system, using known and learnt engineering knowledge and extracted information from the engineering literature at an intermediate level. Define and describe the scope and requirements of your individual sub-system. Integrate your system into the overall system at an intermediate level.
- Write a formal report, create a final product video and develop and deliver a presentation that explains, summarises and evaluates the design and implementation aspects of a complex mechatronics product at an intermediate level. Write a formal report that describes, quantitatively evaluates, and defends technological aspects of a complex mechatronics product at a intermediate level.
Content
This unit will consist of scheduled lectures that cover both the non-technical learning outcomes (ULO1, ULO2, ULO3) and the technical learning outcomes (ULO3, ULO4, ULO5). This is supported by weekly laboratories to support specific aspects of mechatronic design and product development.
Non-technical lectures will cover project management, time management, team building, and technical report preparation.
Technical lectures will cover advanced algorithms, architectures, and theories for controlling and programming mechatronic platforms. Topics include: actuation, locomotion, sensing, sensor fusion, architectures, kinematics and dynamics, fault diagnosis and embedded system development.
Lectures for the first half of the semester will critically compare algorithms and theories specifically for mobile mechatronics platforms. Technical design decisions will form a specific focus in lectures with an aim for future compatibility and flexibility for possible changes. Lectures will build on existing knowledge in mechatronics and critically analyse design and implementation choices. Lectures in the second half of the semester will be based on student request.
Learning Approaches
Mode of Teaching
Total hours per week: 5
Lectures: 2
Laboratory: 2
Tutorial: 1
Team Projects require significant hands-on experience both with the implementation of your product but
also working within a team. The unit will focus on technical challenges in mechatronics while using project
management principles for teamwork learnt in the prerequisite Mechatronics Design 1. A series of
interactive lectures provide a forum for critiquing existing techniques (with a focus on the product) available
to the mechatronics engineer for design and implementation.
- Interactive lectures: Lectures are used to provide deeper understanding of technical material, and choices to be made within your product. Multiple technical solutions are normally applicable to your product and these are discussed in class. Lectures will relate the work to other advanced mechatronics projects providing relevance to current research problems.
- Group meetings: It is expected that your team will meet often throughout each week, be self-managed and deal with task allocation and delivery. If you are unable to resolve any problems in your group, you are encouraged to contact the teaching staff immediately.
- Laboratory: The team project requires the implementation of a complex mechatronic product specified by a client. The project runs over the entire semester and culminates in a demonstration of the product at the end of the unit. Practical work in the laboratory will focus on particular problems that a number of teams may be having but will be flexible such that teams at different stages will be
provided assistance. The product will require mechanical design and construction, electronics design, sensor processing, and embedded programming. Labs later in the semester will be used to complete your product with expert tutor assistance. - Tutorials: Advanced electronic, mechanical design and software programming tutorials will be run during the first half of the semester. These tutorials will focus on skills necessary for developing your product, good design practice and for future-proofing your product.
- Work-Integrated Learning: You will have guidance and feedback from your virtual industry client on your product development through face to face and/or virtual input. You get to reflect on and document the outcome via your ePortfolio as evidence of your progress towards Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competencies.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on your learning throughout the semester through:
- oral post-demonstration feedback on practical performance (assessed items)
- written feedback on submitted reports and video (assessed items)
- peer assessment provided by your team (written component forms part of your assessment)
- oral feedback during laboratories and interactive lectures
Assessment will be based on practical performance of the mechatronic product (50%), an individual written report and a team video (20%), and individual demonstrations (30%). Practical performance will be based on the performance of the product at the end of the unit. This mark is also weighted according to a peer assessment provided by your team. An individual final report and accompanying team video describing your product's design and those parts of the product for which you were responsible will be submitted at the end
of semester.
Each assessment demonstration and submission will be marked against criteria and standards which will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics.
General feedback on assignment tasks will be provided to the class.
Assessment Submission and Extensions
Assessment items submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked and will receive a grade of 1 or 0%. If special circumstances prevent you from meeting the assessment due date, you can apply for an extension. If you don't have an approved extension you should submit the work you have done by the due date and it will be marked against the assessment criteria. QUT's assessment submission requirements reflect the expectations of professional practice where you will need to meet deadlines.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment will be based on practical performance weighted by performance within the team (50%), quality of an individual report and a group video (20%), and three individual demonstrations (performed in your groups) of your own contribution to the product (3 x 10%). Practical performance will be based on the performance of the product at the end of the unit. This mark is also weighted according to a peer assessment provided by your team. The individual report describing your product's design and novel features will be presented in along with an accompanying group video which will be submitted at the end of semester. This report will be assessed on design rationale, quality of presentation, and novel contributions. The technical challenges will provide a platform to demonstrate your individual expertise in one or more of five areas: mechanical; electrical, software; algorithmic; or systems engineering. Note: you must submit
your ePortfolio to pass this unit as this will be used throughout your course
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project (applied)
In a group of four, you will design a mechatronics product with a bias to completeness and performance in the final demonstration. Peer assessments provided by your team will weight the final mark for Assessment Item 1 in this project.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Report & Video
Each member will write a report on the part of the robot that they worked on. This report will include specifications, literature, design and results. An accompanying video will highlight results presented in the paper.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Individual Demonstrations
You will show your individual progress in three separate demonstrations called design, prototype and final. In the design demonstration, you will list your specifications and show your intended solution for your part of the project including preliminary experiments and results. In the prototype demonstration, you will show a prototype of your solution or significant progress towards your solution. In the final demonstration, you will show your completed or very close to completed part of the project. Although it may still require more integration with other team member's contributions and more calibration at this stage.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Computer software: MATLAB, Altium, Solid Works, Python, VrepCoppeliaSim
Project: Small motor platform, electronic components, electronics workbench (power supply, oscilloscope,
function generator).
Risk Assessment Statement
You will undertake lectures and tutorials in the traditional classrooms and lecture theatres. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit.
You will be required to undertake practical sessions in the laboratory under the supervision of the lecturer and technical staff of the School. In any laboratory practicals you will be advised of requirements of safe and responsible behaviour and will be required to wear appropriate protective items (e.g. closed shoes).
You will undergo a health and safety induction before the commencement of the practical sessions, both an online induction and an in-laboratory safety induction. If you do not complete both safety inductions you will be denied access to laboratories.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO5, Report & Video - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: ULO1, Project (applied), Individual Demonstrations - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO3, Project (applied), Report & Video, Individual Demonstrations - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Project (applied), Report & Video, Individual Demonstrations - Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO2, Project (applied), Report & Video, Individual Demonstrations
EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Report & Video - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Project (applied), Individual Demonstrations - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Project (applied), Report & Video, Individual Demonstrations - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project (applied), Report & Video, Individual Demonstrations - Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project (applied), Report & Video, Individual Demonstrations