Engineers, who work for companies have obligations to respect the legitimate authority of their employers, in order to fulfill the organizational aims. Hence, authority is a must. Authority provides a way for identifying the...
A balanced outlook on law stresses the necessity of laws and regulations and their limitations in directing engineering practice. In order to live, work and play together in harmony as a society, there must be a balance between...
The codes of ethics have to be adopted by engineering societies as well as by engineers. These codes exhibit the rights, duties and obligations of the members of a profession. Codes are the set of laws and standards. A code of...
The engineers have so many responsibilities for serving the society. A Primary duty is to protect the safety of human beings and respect their right of consent [A conscientious commitment to live by moral values]. Having a clear...
In lead through programming, the robot is moved through the desired motion path in order to record the path into the controller memory. There are two ways of accomplishing lead through programming: Powered lead through Manual...
Robot programming is accomplished in several ways. Consistent with current industrial practice we divide the programming methods into two basic types: Lead through methods Textual robot languages The lead through methods...
Our description of the typical machine vision system in the preceding section identified three functions: sensing and digitizing, image processing and analysis, and application. This and the following sections in the chapter will...
Machine vision is concerned with the sensing of vision data and its interpretation by a computer. The typical vision system consists of the camera and digitizing hardware, a digital computer, and hardware and software necessary...
The major uses of sensors in industrial robotics and other automated manufacturing systems can be divided into four basic categories : Safety monitoring Interlocks in workcell control Part inspection for quality...
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...
