The IAP of the Engineering Faculty

Invites the faculty students and staff to attend the lecture on:

Model-Based Design

(the lecture is in English)

Sunday, 15 November, 10:00-12:00

Wolfson Building for Mechanical Engineering, room 206

The lecture:

The Lecture will deal with Model-Based Design – here is the entry in the Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_design

A brief video about the method:

http://www.mathworks.com/videos/model-based-design-with-matlab-and-simulink-69040.html?type=shadow&shadow_version=lightbox

The speaker:

Dr. Jon Friedman is a senior manager at MathWorks in Industry Marketing.  Dr. Friedman’s thesis work focused on the application of robust system identification and control theory.  After completing the PhD program at University of Michigan, Jon held research and product development positions in the commercial and defense sectors of the automotive and aerospace industries.  In addition experience deploying Model-Based Design and code generation at a Fortune 50 company, he has also been a program manager on multiple vehicle programs and led lean engineering and manufacturing projects.  At MathWorks, Jon leads a team of industry experts focused on helping leading companies in the AeroDef and Auto industries adopt Model-Based Design though sharing of best practices.  Dr. Friedman has authored over 50 papers and articles on modeling and Model-Based Design and also holds an MBA from the University of Michigan.

The IAP promotes the dialogue between the Faculty and the Industry, by providing the platform on which both can engage in areas such as R&D, students’ internship and recruitment, activation of knowledge transfer processes by Ramot and more.

School of Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Monday, january 4, 2016 at 15:00
Wolfson Building of Mechanical Engineering, Room 206

Common Grasping and Dynamic Regrasping

Avishai Sintov

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

In today’s manufacturing plants, robots are the foundational element of high volume automation and are used extensively in various operations. Today’s manufacturing plants have to juggle two critical and often conflicting requirements: the greater demand and the higher quality. This requires manufacturing high quality products while meeting a very high production rate. The robots interact with the objects by using an arm and an end-effector that is a key interface between the robot and the component or product that needs to be handled. The robot arms are built for multi-purpose tasks. While many end-effectors look similar to one another; they are designed, built, and optimized for a specific task and specific part geometry. This makes them very inflexible in handling variations in component shape or the task. Thus, a typical end-effector consumes a considerable amount of engineering time and adds extra cost to the final product. 

In this talk I will address this problem with two distinguish approaches. The first is a novel search algorithm for common grasping of a set of objects. The algorithm searches for a simple end-effector design able to feasibly grasp all of the objects. The second approach is known as Dynamic Regrasping to alternate grasp configurations of the object with respect to the task to be done. I would talk about two types of dynamic regrasping manipulations using a robotic arm and a simple non-dexterous gripper. Thus, the same arm can grasp multiple parts and perform multiple operations on the same part, and by that decrease the number of robotic arms in the plant.

School of Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Monday, November 16, 2015 at 15:00
Wolfson Building of Mechanical Engineering, Room 206

THE EFFECT OF PARTICLE AND FLUID INERTIA ON THE DYNAMICS OF PARTICLES IN FLOWS

Prof. Bernhard Mehlig

Department of Physics

University of Gothenburg

Sweden

The dynamics of a very small particle suspended in a fluid flow is simple: the centre-of-mass is advected by the fluid velocity, and the orientational dynamics is determined by the sequence of fluid-velocity gradients that the particle experiences. For larger particles inertial effects may become important. Particle inertia is relatively straightforward to treat and there has recently been substantial progress in understanding its effect upon the dynamics of particles in flows. The effect of fluid inertia, by contrast, is more difficult to describe. In this talk I will review what is known about the effect of fluid inertia upon the translational and orientational motion of particles in flows.