ELECTRONICS OF IOT AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS – 12 CFU

ELECTRONICS OF IOT AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS – 12 CFU
2 YEAR 1 semester 12 CFU
Patrick LONGHI (3cfu)
Giancarlo ORENGO (3cfu)
Gian Carlo CARDARILLI (4cfu)
Luca DI NUNZIO (2cfu)
since A.Y. 2019-20
M-5519 – ELECTRONICS OF IOT (6cfu)

MECHA – Electronics of IOT and Embedded Systems (IOT)G. Cardarilli – G. Orengo
M-5520 – DESIGN OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS FOR MECHATRONICS (6cfu)

Syllabus📑

Code: 8039795
SSD: ING-INF/01

SYLLABUS:

(Longhi):

Introduction to radiating elements and their key parameters.
Ideal and practical link budget.
The effect of noise in electronic receivers, figures of merit and mathematical modelling. Receiver G/T.
Practical aspects of IoT RF systems
RFID
Radiating elements key parameters, gain, directivity, HPBW, nulls, radiation pattern, polarization, and input impedance. Some practical cases: the mono/di-pole family, microstrip antennas, parabolic reflector, wearables
Introduction to RF transceiver systems and key-components (switches, HPA, LNA, mixers, frequency generators).

(G.Orengo):

Summary of Digital Electronics: digital encoding of information, binary (fixed and floating point), hexadecimal and ASCII; operators and main logic circuits, registers and memories, programmable devices. Prototyping boards for IoT (Arduino, Rasberry), Systems on Chip (SoC), architecture of a microcontroller, description of the Arduino Uno board. Programming languages ​​(assembly, compiled, interpreted), structure of an Arduino sketch (libraries, setups, loops, functions, interrupts), programming elements in C (variables, math and logical operations, cycles, conditional statements). Use of digital and analog I/O ports (A/D conversion, PWM output). Synchronous and asynchronous serial communication modes, wired (USB) and wireless with Bluetooth, RF and WiFi modules. Remote control of electronic modules (sensors, dc stepper and servo motors, LED/LCD displays etc.) from portable devices (Windows, IoS), through applications developed in Processing and Python, and mobile (Android), through Apps developed with the MIT App Inventor platform. Internet protocols for device local/remote control through WiFi modules connected as access points/clients to web platforms or public/private cloud servers controlled by laptops and/or mobile devices.

(G.Cardarilli):

– Introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded systems
– Wireless and mobile communications
– The Sensors
– Low power processing
– IoT and machine learning applications
– Future developments in the field of IoT and embedded systems

 

Fundamentals of Mechanisms of Systems (block A) (since 2022-23)

Fundamentals of Mechanisms of Systems (block A) (since 2022-23)
1 YEAR
1 semester 6 CFU
Marco Ceccarelli A.Y. 2021-22 to 2024-25

A.Y. 2025-26 new name: 80300216 MECHANICS OF SYSTEMS FOR SIMULATIONS

Code: 803000062
SSD: ING-IND-13
(by Engineering Sciences)

OBJECTIVES

LEARNING OUTCOMES: The course aims to teach students the knowledge and tools that are needed to address the issues that are related to the identification, modeling, analysis, and design of multi-body planar systems in English language and terminology

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: modeling and procedures to recognize the structure and characteristics of mechanisms and machines

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: acquisition of analysis procedures for the understanding of kinematic and dynamic characteristics of mechanisms and machines

MAKING JUDGEMENTS: possibility of judging the functionality of mechanisms and machines with their own qualitative and quantitative assessments

COMMUNICATION SKILLS: learning technical terminology and procedures for presenting the performance of mechanisms

LEARNING SKILLS: learning technical terminology and procedures for the presentation of the performance of mechanisms


PREREQUISITES: knowledge of basic mechanics of rigid bodies and computation skills

SYLLABUS

Structure and classification of planar mechanical systems, kinematic modeling, mobility analysis, graphical approaches of kinematics analysis, kinematic analysis with computer-oriented algorithms; dynamics and statics modeling, graphical approaches of dynamics analysis, dynamic analysis with computer-oriented algorithms, performance evaluation; elements of mechanical transmissions.

BOOKS:

Lopez-Cajùn C., Ceccarelli M., Mecanismos, Trillas, Città del Messico
Shigley J.E., Pennock G.R., Uicker J.J., “Theory of Machines and Mechanisms”, McGraw-Hill, New York
Handnotes and papers by the teachers

ROBOT MECHANICS – 9 CFU

ROBOT MECHANICS – 9 CFU
1 YEAR (Blocks B|C)24-25
2 YEAR (Blocks A|D|E)24-25 (All)25-26
1 semester 9 CFU
Marco Ceccarelli (6/9 cfu)

Matteo Russo (3/6 cfu)

A.Y. 2021-22

A.Y. 2022-23

Matteo Russo (9cfu)
since A.Y. 2023-24

MECHA – Robot Mechanics (ROM)M. Russo

didatticaweb
Syllabus📑

Code: 8039785
SSD: ING-IND/13

INTEGRATED SENSORS – 9 CFU

INTEGRATED SENSORS – 9 CFU
1 YEAR (ALL) 25-26
2 YEAR (Block B)24-25
1 semester 9 CFU
Corrado Di Natale A.Y. 2019-20 (new name, ex Electronic Devices and Sensors)
Alexandro Catini (6cfu)
Corrado  Di Natale (3cfu)
A.Y. 2022-23
A.Y. 2023-24
Alexandro Catini (8cfu) – catini@ing.uniroma2.it
Corrado  Di Natale (1cfu) 
A.Y. 2024-25

MECHA – Integrated Sensors (IS)A. Catini – C. Di Natale

didatticaweb
Syllabus📑

Code: 8039927
SSD: ING-INF/01

 

Innovative Materials with Laboratory (blocks C1-E)

Innovative Materials with Laboratory (blocks C1-E)
1 YEAR 1 semester 6 CFU
TATA MARIA ELISA (1cfu)
COSTANZA GIROLAMO (1cfu)
VARONE ALESSANDRA (4cfu)
A.Y. 2020-21 to
A.Y. 2024-25 (B-C1-E)
COSTANZA GIROLAMO (4cfu)

TATA MARIA ELISA (2cfu)

A.Y. 2025-26 (C1-E)
MECHA – Innovative Materials with Laboratory (IML)G. Costanza – M.E. Tata
didaticaweb
✅ Syllabus📑

Code: 8039786
SSD: ING-IND/21