What is a Robot?
Imagine your computer with hands and legs, if it can be programmed move and do some thing thats ROBOT.
What is a Robot?
Imagine your computer with hands and legs, if it can be programmed move and do some thing thats ROBOT.
What is Robotics?
Robotics is the technology that deals with the design of Robots.
In general Robotics is integration of systems (actuators and sensors) to achieve planned and accurate motion.
Common Illusion
Generally people think all robots will look like human being. Human look-alike robots are called humanoids, there are several type of robots present in real world other than humanoids.
Robotics - Integration of Many technologies
Robotics uses so many technologies which includes mechanical, electronics, software, bio mechanics, control systems, machine design, vision, Artificial Intelligence, Neural networks and cognitive science.
Until now there are no clear boundaries about which technology will play a major role in a particular robot. All depends on the type of Robot designed.
Types of Robots
Industrial Robots:
Used for machine tending, welding, painting and Assembling etc
Pet Robots:
Used for entertaining human begins, it can play games etc.
Service Robots:
Used for clean floors, cook surveillance and security purpose.
Tele Robots:
Mostly this will be placed in the dangerous environments; humans operate these robots via communication protocols.
Mobile Robots:
This is nothing but Automatic Guided Vehicles used for transporting materials, this always do non repetitive tasks.
Job Opportunities in Robotics:
Do you think robotics sound interesting but the scope is limited when it comes to career point of view? Think again after reading the following points.
Robots are used widely in mass production of goods where it can replace human beings who are working in packing, manufacturing and assembling department.
Today, Robots can perform job better than human beings.
Robots are used to handle the jobs in dirty, dangerous and dull environment where human don't like to work.
Building a Robot:
Take something; a mechanical device it can be wood, metal or plastic; this is called as actuator. Actuator means muscles for a Robots. It is meant for movement.
Actuator can be made using pneumatic, hydraulic or electronics technology.
Pneumatic Actuators-> Movement caused by air.
Hydraulic Actuators -> Movement caused by liquid
Electronics Actuators -> Movement caused by magnetism and electronics
Sensors
Robot senses the environment using sensors.
There are so many sensors available for this purpose. Position sensors, Rotary sensors, optical sensors, ultra sonic sensors, photo electric sensors, vision sensors, linear sensors, capacitive sensors, inductive sensors, etc., Let us see more about these sensors in the forth coming tutorials.
Controller
Robot uses mechanical device (actuator) for movement and sensors to find out where the actuator is? But who is responsible to decide where the actuator (mechanical device) should move and who monitors sensors? Even though the sensor gives the feedback it should be received properly and processed by someone who is intelligent! Based on the feedback given by the sensor the operation is performed by controlling the actuators, this done is done by Controllers, there are again several systems or technologies available to do this job. PLCs, microcontrollers, microprocessors, etc based on the requirement of the design these components can be chosen. Controllers are the brain of Robots; we can feed programs into it and make it work as per the functionality or operations of the robot.
Boundary of technologies in Robotics:
Mechanical Domain: Pneumatic and Hydraulic Actuators are related to mechanical domain.
Electronics Domain: Controllers, motors Actuators and Sensors are related to electronics domain.
Software Domain: Programming the controllers for driving the actuators and measuring the feedback from sensors are related to software domain.
There are several sub domains, under these major domains;
Mechanical Domain: Biomechanics, Mechanics, Dynamics, Kinematics and Machine design.
Electronics Domain: Control systems, Sensors, PLC, Embedded systems, VLSI, DSP technologies.
Software Domain: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Vision, Cognitive science and NLP.
Imagine your computer with hands and legs, if it can be programmed move and do some thing thats ROBOT.
What is Robotics?
Robotics is the technology that deals with the design of Robots.
In general Robotics is integration of systems (actuators and sensors) to achieve planned and accurate motion.
Common Illusion
Generally people think all robots will look like human being. Human look-alike robots are called humanoids, there are several type of robots present in real world other than humanoids.
Robotics - Integration of Many technologies
Robotics uses so many technologies which includes mechanical, electronics, software, bio mechanics, control systems, machine design, vision, Artificial Intelligence, Neural networks and cognitive science.
Until now there are no clear boundaries about which technology will play a major role in a particular robot. All depends on the type of Robot designed.
Types of Robots
Industrial Robots:
Used for machine tending, welding, painting and Assembling etc
Pet Robots:
Used for entertaining human begins, it can play games etc.
Service Robots:
Used for clean floors, cook surveillance and security purpose.
Tele Robots:
Mostly this will be placed in the dangerous environments; humans operate these robots via communication protocols.
Mobile Robots:
This is nothing but Automatic Guided Vehicles used for transporting materials, this always do non repetitive tasks.
Job Opportunities in Robotics:
Do you think robotics sound interesting but the scope is limited when it comes to career point of view? Think again after reading the following points.
Robots are used widely in mass production of goods where it can replace human beings who are working in packing, manufacturing and assembling department.
Today, Robots can perform job better than human beings.
Robots are used to handle the jobs in dirty, dangerous and dull environment where human don't like to work.
Building a Robot:
Take something; a mechanical device it can be wood, metal or plastic; this is called as actuator. Actuator means muscles for a Robots. It is meant for movement.
Actuator can be made using pneumatic, hydraulic or electronics technology.
Pneumatic Actuators-> Movement caused by air.
Hydraulic Actuators -> Movement caused by liquid
Electronics Actuators -> Movement caused by magnetism and electronics
Sensors
Robot senses the environment using sensors.
There are so many sensors available for this purpose. Position sensors, Rotary sensors, optical sensors, ultra sonic sensors, photo electric sensors, vision sensors, linear sensors, capacitive sensors, inductive sensors, etc., Let us see more about these sensors in the forth coming tutorials.
Controller
Robot uses mechanical device (actuator) for movement and sensors to find out where the actuator is? But who is responsible to decide where the actuator (mechanical device) should move and who monitors sensors? Even though the sensor gives the feedback it should be received properly and processed by someone who is intelligent! Based on the feedback given by the sensor the operation is performed by controlling the actuators, this done is done by Controllers, there are again several systems or technologies available to do this job. PLCs, microcontrollers, microprocessors, etc based on the requirement of the design these components can be chosen. Controllers are the brain of Robots; we can feed programs into it and make it work as per the functionality or operations of the robot.
Boundary of technologies in Robotics:
Mechanical Domain: Pneumatic and Hydraulic Actuators are related to mechanical domain.
Electronics Domain: Controllers, motors Actuators and Sensors are related to electronics domain.
Software Domain: Programming the controllers for driving the actuators and measuring the feedback from sensors are related to software domain.
There are several sub domains, under these major domains;
Mechanical Domain: Biomechanics, Mechanics, Dynamics, Kinematics and Machine design.
Electronics Domain: Control systems, Sensors, PLC, Embedded systems, VLSI, DSP technologies.
Software Domain: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Vision, Cognitive science and NLP.
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