BASICS OF ROBOTICS

  Robot was defined as a software controlled mechanical device that uses sensors to guide one or more of end effectors through programmed motions in a workspace in order to manipulate physical objects. 

End effector is nothing but the tool attached to the robot. If it is welding robot, there is a welding tool. If it is a assembly robot or pick and place robot, there will be a grasper associated with that or if it is a painting robot, there will be a paint gun. So, that is basically known as end effector. And so, the end effector has to move around so that is to get one or more end effectors through programmed motions in a workspace, in a workspace, in order to manipulate physical objects.  

 In robotics, we use the fundamentals of different subjects, for example, 

🔺Physics,

🔺 Mathematics,

🔺Mechanical engineering,

🔺Electrical and Electronics engineering, 

🔺Computer science. 

And, that is why, it is bit difficult to become a true roboticist, because if we want to become an expert, a true expert of robotics, we will have to know the fundamentals of all these basic subjects, and a robotics is actually a multi-disciplinary subject. 

                            

 In robotics, we try to copy 3 Hs. Now, these 3 Hs are nothing but, the Hand, Head, and Heart, that means,

🔻We try to copy the hand of a human being in the artificial way, in the form of one manipulator, that is, the mechanical hand. 

🔻We try to copy the head of a human-being, that is, nothing but the intelligence. 

🔻We also try to copy the heart of a human being, but not the mechanical heart, but the emotion of a human-being. And, that is why, in future, the robot will be intelligent and at the same time emotional too.!!!

What is the motivation behind robotics?

 In today’s market, it is dynamic and competitive. And, if you want to be in competition, and if you want to be in business, what you will have to do is, You will have to fulfill at least three requirements:

⧭the produce good at low cost

⧭the productivity has to be high

⧭the quality of the product has to be good

Now, it is bit difficult to achieve all these three things at a time, and some of them are actually conflicting!!!. If you want to achieve all three, there is only one solution, and that is nothing but automation. So, you will have to go for Automation!!!

Components of a typical robotic system:

1.Base

2.Links and Joints

3.End effector / Gripper

4.Wrist

5.Drive / Actuator

6.Controllers

7.Sensors.

These major components are used to built a Robot!!!

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