Robot Components: The Robots Can Be Made Out of The Below Mentioned
Robot Components: The Robots Can Be Made Out of The Below Mentioned
Robot Components: The Robots Can Be Made Out of The Below Mentioned
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1. ARMS.
The various links and joints make the anatomy of the robot
which are also known as manipulators.
Manipulators are the mechanical parts of a robot.
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2. End-effectors.
The part that is connected to the end of the arm
constituting the robot hand is the end-effector which in
itself is different for different applications, like spray coat
gun, a welding electrode holder, part gripper, glue applying
device or a special purpose tool.
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3. Actuators.
The joints of the robots are powered by actuators, that
produce, rotary or translatory movement in the links.
The power delivering systems can be hydraulic or
pneumative drives, and servo-motors or stepper motors
which are direct drive types.
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4. Sensors.
These are the parts that recognise the robots position while in
movements or when static.
The further movements or action depend on the feedback of
the information collected by the sensors.
Sensors also perform the function of gathering data about it
surrounding (work cell) which aids in processing the task.
The touch and tactile sensors, vision system, force sensors,
speech processors are some of the examples to the sensors.
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5. Controllers.
These are electronic devices which manipulate the signals
from the sensors, to be provided to the drives in a
understandable pattern to produce actions.
The action produced may be matching or may not be tallying
with the desired output.
The deviation is fed back in the form of an error which
adjusts the reference input to a actuating signal.
The control elements and the feed back elements constitute
the control system.
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