Proximity sensors are devices that indicate when one object is done another object. How close the object must be in order to activate the sensor is dependent on the particular. The distances can be anywhere between several...
Category - Robotics
Most of this chapter has been concerned with grippers rather than tools as end effectors. As indicated in before section tools are used for spot welding, arc welding, rotating spindle operations, and other processing...
Magnetic grippers can be a very feasible means of handling ferrous materials. The stainless steel plate in example would not be an appropriate application for a magnetic gripper because 18∼8 stainless steel is not attracted by...
The topic of robot dynamics is concerned with the analysis of the torques and forces due to acceleration and deceleration. Torques experienced by the joints due to acceleration of the links, as well as forces experienced by the...
In many cases it is more important to be able to derive the joint angles given the end-of-arm position in world space. The typical situation is where the robot’s controller must compute the joint angles required to move its...
The arm we have been modeling is very simple; a two-jointed robot arm has little practical value except for very simple tasks. Let us add to the manipulator a modest capability for orienting as well as positioning a part or...
Figure illustrates the configuration of a manipulator in three dimensions. The manipulator has 4 degrees of freedom: joint 1 (type T joint) allows rotation about the z axis; joint 2 (type R) allows rotation about an axis that is...
A robot moves in space to perform tasks and hence it needs actuators to move the links and sensors to know where each joint is. Sensors inform the controller by how much each joint has moved and thus enables the controller to...
Commercially available industrial robots can be classified into four categories according to their control system. The types of robot controls : Limited sequence robots Playback robots with point to point control Playback...
We can develop a general configuration for a robot controller. The elements needed in the controller include: joint servo controllers, joint power amplifiers, mathematical processor, executive processor, program memory, and input...
