Robot Components: The Robots Can Be Made Out of The Below Mentioned

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ROBOT COMPONENTS

 The robots can be made out of the below mentioned


components designed and selected to suit the derived
specifications to fulfill the needs of a particular industrial
tasks of material handling, welding, painting, gluing and
assembly tasks.
Sl no Components Sl no Components
1 Arms 4 Sensors.
2 End-effectors. 5 Controllers.
3 Actuators. 6 Software and Hardware.

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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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6. Software and Hardware.


 A computer software and hardware process through
computation of the symbolic codes to derive the needed
purpose of position, speed and accuracy of motion obtained
by the kinematic equations.
 The monitors the peripherals and computer systems are the
hardware parts.
 The programming languages can be a low level language like
machine language or a high level language like the present
day high-level languages.
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