¶ … Industrial Robots clearly defines and outlines the general characteristics of an industrial robot. This paper also highlights the technical parts of an industrial robot and how with the help of these parts a robot is able to perform a number of tasks. This paper also species the use of robots in manufacturing.
In 1961, the automatons at General Motor Corporation made a promise of giving the world a flexible automation with high microprocessor power and artificial intelligence. This resulted in full potential industrial robots. The history of robots can be traced back to the 1920s when Karel Capek depicted the world to comprise of millions of intelligent machines that were designed to be perfect and tireless workers. Many people misunderstand what an industrial robot is. They often confuse terms such as remote-controlled, automations and numerical controlled with the term industrial robot. This is due in part to false impressions created by the science fiction and in part to the way robots actually developed. An industrial robot is basically a specialized machine tool that is consistent, unchanging, unthinking and untiring. Such robots are greatly suited for repetitive, unskilled or semiskilled, monotonous and burdensome tasks. They are also useful for jobs that would be hazardous for a person to perform.
Ever since the invention of SCARA robot, industrial robots have become the sawhorses of manufacturing. From the moment people started doing work, they began trying to find methods of automating the work. Progress can be seen in the usage of automated machines, computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing and computer aided robotics and industrial robots. Many industrial robots work in cooperation with other automated machines. It is important for persons who are working with industrial robots to be familiar with the techniques of communicating with other machines and devices in the production like. These may include the use of LAN, MAP and TOP.
Industrial robots have great use in the industrial and manufacturing world.
Heavy industrial six-axis robots continue to provide valuable work in automotive applications such as spot welding, de-palletizing heavy objects like engine blocks, and loading parts into dangerous equipment like presses. These include the Fanuc
Robotics, Rochester Hills, MI model pictured on the cover working at the Honda,
Anna, OH engine plant with integrated DVT, Norcross, GA vision systems (Gary
Mintchell, Industrial Robots Fast, Nimble At 30).
Industrial robots do not resemble a human worker physically even though they may do a job in a manner similar to human beings. An industrial robot has a single manipulator somewhat similar to a human arm and hand. In most applications, robots do not work as fast as humans' do but they are far more accurate in precision. Even though industrial robots are not as efficient as human beings, they however are easily retrained and reprogrammed to perform a variety of tasks. An industrail robot comprises of the following parts and characteristics, namely, hand, wrist, base, lifting power, repeatability, manual control, automatic control, memory of programs, safety interlocks, speed of operation, computer interface, reliability and easy maintenance. An industrail robot has three types of components namely, physical parts or anatomy, built in instructions or instinct and learned behavior or task programs.
The physical portion of an industrial robot is made up of three or four parts namely,
The mechanical part or manipulator, which performs the work through motion controller, which directs motion
The power supply, which supplies energy to the manipulator and The vehicle, which transports the base of the robot to where it is to do the work.
Industrial robots experience more freedom and flexibility of movement through Lapp
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Robots Learn All The New Moves).
A robot is able to produce motion with the help of the manipulator. The parts of a robot's manipulator are named after similar parts in a human's chief manipulator, the arm and the hand. The points at which a robot's manipulator bends, slides or rotates are called joints or axes of motion; they include the shoulder, the elbow,...
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