Robot are employed in a wide assortment of applications in industry. Today, most of the applications are in manufacturing to move materials, parts, and tools of various types. Nonmanufacturing tasks include exploration of space...
Category - Robotics
In its most basic form, a robot program can be defined as a path in space through which the manipulator is directed to move. This path also includes other actions such as controlling the end effector and receiving signals from...
The speed capabilities of current industrial robots range up to a maximum of about 500 degrees per second for certain joints. Current day industrial robots can have cycle times as low as 0.8 sec (e.g., Adept Viper). The highest...
Work volume is the term that refers to the space within which the robot can manipulate its wrist end. The convention of using the wrist end to define the robot’s work volume is adopted to avoid the complication of different...
The robot’s capacity to move its body, arm, and wrist is provided by the drive system used to power the robot. The drive system determines its speed of operation, load carrying capacity, and its dynamic performance. To some...
Industrial robots are available in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and physical configurations. The vast majority of today’s commercially available robots possess one of four basic configurations: Polar...
In this part we discuss mobile robots, a class of robots that are able to move through the environment. The figures show an assortment of mobile robots that can move over the ground, over the water, through the air, or through...
The term introduction of robot means different things to different people. Science fiction books and movies have strongly influenced what many people expect a robot to be or what it can do. Sadly the practice of robotics is far...
The mechatronics system design process consists of the following stages. Stage 1: Need for design The mechatronics system design process begins with a need. Needs are usually arise from dissatisfaction with an existing situation...
Microprocessor Based Controllers Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as TVs, cars, radios, home appliances and of course, computers. Microprocessor based controllers are also called as...
