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Robot Mechanisms
A robot is a machine capable of physical motion for interacting with the environment. Physical interactions include manipulation, locomotion, and…
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Brushless Dc Motors
The DC motor described in the previous section is the simplest, yet efficient motor among various actuators applied to robotic…
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Optical Shaft Encoders
The servomechanism described in the previous section is based on analogue feedback technology, using a potentiometer and a tachometer generator.…
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PWM switching characteristics
As the PWM frequency increases, the current driven to the motor becomes smoother, and the nonlinearity due to discrete switching…
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Dynamics of Single-Axis Drive Systems
DC motors and other types of actuators are used to drive individual axes of a robotic system. a schematic diagram…
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Actuators and Drive Systems
Actuators are one of the key components contained in a robotic system. A robot has many degrees of freedom, each…
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Manipulation and Dexterity
Contemporary industrial needs drive the applications of robots to ever more advanced tasks. Robots are required to perform highly skilled…
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Introduction to Robotics
Introduction Many definitions have been suggested for what we call a robot. The word may conjure up various levels of…
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Where To Next? The Future of Robotics
Self-Reconfigurable Robotics In theory at least, a swarm of tiny robots can get together to create any shape. In reality,…
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Types of Groups and Teams
How would you program a bunch of robots to play soccer A wheeled robot and a six-legged robot cooperatively pushing…
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Go, Team! Group Robotics
What makes a group of robots a team? If you can control one robot, what’s different about getting a group…
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Toto’s Mapping Behaviour’s
In order to store those landmarks, Toto constructed a map, as shown in figure. Here we come upon the really…