Industrial Robotics

Taxonomy and Standards in Robotics

“…According to the standard (ISO 8373), an industrial robot is being defined as "Automatically controlled, reprogrammable multipurpose manipulator(s), programmable in three or more axes, which can be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications" Other definitions focus on the particular applications: "Industrial robotics deals with the application of robots and manipulators for welding, casting, painting, surface protection, machining, assembly, and many other industrial processes which are physically demanding, hazardous, or monotonous." (Morecki &Knapczyk, 1999) Tamas Haidegger, "Taxonomy and Standards in Robotics". In Marcelo H. Ang, Oussama Khatib, and Bruno Siciliano (eds), Encyclopedia of Robotics, Springer Nature, 2021 9…”

Failure Tolerance through Active Braking: A Kinematic Approach

“…This paper will focus on free-swinging failures dominated by viscous friction. Of the common types ofrobotic drives and mechanisms (Morecki and Knapczyk 1999), this could be the case for catastrophic (7) If si~1 or gis parallel to Zi -lor 8i == it , the gradient of e i is either 0 or undefined. Otherwise, from (6), the entries of ve i are calculated as follows:…”