Mechanisms of robots: Regional and orientational mechanisms of serial chain manipulators, gripper mechanisms, parallel chain manipulator mechanisms, leg mechanisms of walking robots, suspension and drive mechanisms of wheeled rovers, bio-robots, UAV’s and Underwater robots. Representation of spatial mechanisms, and rigid body transformations Actuators, drives, and sensors in robotics.

Design considerations – codes and standards – aerospace materials and their properties – selection of materials – failure theories – design criteria – strength, stiffness, fatigue, damage tolerance – fail safe and safe life designs – design aspects typical aerospace structural constructions: monocoque, stiffened plate, isogrid, sandwich and laminated composites – weight control – design of pressurized systems – configuration, design calculations and checks applied to typical aerospace structures – structural connections and joints – fasteners – design project.

Overview of smart materials – piezoelectric ceramics – piezo-polymers – magnetostrictive materials – electroactive polymers – shape memory alloys – electro and magneto rheological fluids. Mechanics of Piezoelectric Materials and Systems: constitutive modelling – actuator and sensor – piezoelectric beams and plates. Shape Memory Alloys: constitutive modelling – actuation models. Electroactive polymer materials applications.

Overview of robotics – manipulators and field robots; robot mechanisms - serial chains, regional and orientational mechanisms, parallel chains, reachable and dexterous work space, mechanisms of wheeled and walking robots; spatial displacements, rotation matrices, Euler angles, homogenous transformation, D-H parameters, forward and inverse problems for serial and parallel manipulators; task planning – joint space and task space planning; sensors – joint displacement sensors, force sen- sors, range finders, vision sensors; actuators - electric motors - stepper, PMDC and brushless DC motors, p

Structural components of aircraft – loads and material selection – introduction to Kirchhoff theory of thin plates – bending and buckling of thin plates – unsymmetric bending of beams – bending of open and closed thin walled beams – shear and torsion of thin walled beams – combined open and closed section of beams – structural idealization.

Vector Space, norm, and angle – linear independence and orthonormal sets – row reduction and echelon forms, matrix operations, including inverses – effect of round-off error, operation counts – block/banded matrices arising from discretization of differential equations – linear dependence and independence – subspaces and bases and dimensions – orthogonal bases and orthogonal projections – Gram-Schmidt process – linear models and least-squares problems – eigenvalues and eigenvectors – diagonalization of a matrix – symmetric matrices – positive definite matrices – similar matrices – linear tr

Basic acoustic principles – acoustic terminology and definitions – plane and spherical wave prop- agation – theories of monopole, dipole and quadrapole sound sources – sound transmission and absorption – sound transmission through ducts – structure borne sound – sound radiation and structural response – introduction to noise control.

Introduction – linear programming – revised simplex method – duality and sensitivity analysis – dual simplex method – goal programming – integer programming – network optimization models – dynamic programming – nonlinear programming – unconstrained and constrained optimization – nontraditional optimization algorithms.