Robotics

Designed for engineering students who are developing mechanisms for contemporary machine production, this book emphasizes and answers such questions as: how do the devices work?; what are the means for solving specific technical problems in this domain?; what are the difficulties and obstacles in creating a successfully functioning automatic machine?; and what must be done to design a highly productive manufacturing robot? While the main accent of the volume is on industrial applications of these machines, the levels of intelligence of such machinery are analyzed and concepts relevant to robotics are addressed throughout. Step by step, the readers are guided through the proper design sequence for constructing automatic mechanisms. The author discusses the relationship between level of robot "intelligence" and the type of product produced. Types, levels and structures of robots are detailed and the dynamics of manipulators are shown. Progressing through the lifetime cycle of automatic equipment, Sandler deals with recent techniques and problem-solving methods in robotics.