Industrial robot architectures and kinematics, ROS, machine vision, collaborative robot (cobot) safety standards, Arduino & Raspberry Pi prototyping, servo/stepper motion control, and the sensors automation depends on.
Answer a few questions about payload, reach, and task, and get a recommended robot architecture — articulated, SCARA, Delta, or Cartesian — with the reasoning behind it.
Compute the required motor torque from load mass, radius, and acceleration, and get guidance on whether a stepper or servo motor fits the result.
A searchable reference of proximity, photoelectric, and force/torque sensor types, filterable by what you need to detect.
Toggle field inputs and watch a start/stop seal-in circuit, a safety interlock, and an on-delay timer rung evaluate live.
Compute the minimum protective separation distance for a speed and separation monitoring (SSM) collaborative robot cell per ISO/TS 15066 and ISO 13855.
Drive joint angles for forward kinematics or enter a target point to solve inverse kinematics, with elbow-up/elbow-down solutions and reachable-workspace visualization.
Robotics and automation has no dedicated NCEES PE/FE track — instead, the credential that matters most to industry employers is A3 (the Association for Advancing Automation)'s Certified Motion Control Professional, alongside deep working knowledge of the industrial robot safety standards (ANSI/RIA R15.06, ISO 10218, and ISO/TS 15066 for collaborative robots) that govern every real robot cell. Rounding this out is a robot-programming fundamentals exam covering the ROS/ROS2, kinematics, and path-planning concepts that underpin robot software regardless of which platform or industry you work in.
A3 CMCP prep: servo and stepper motor fundamentals, motion controllers and cascaded control loops, encoders and feedback devices, trapezoidal/S-curve motion profiles, gearing, and system tuning.
Industrial robot safety prep: risk assessment, safeguarding devices, safety-rated monitored stop and speed/separation monitoring, ISO/TS 15066 cobot safety, and lockout/tagout for robot cells.
Robot Programming Fundamentals prep: ROS/ROS2 core concepts, coordinate frames and transformations, forward and inverse kinematics, path and motion planning, and robot programming logic and I/O.