Micropolis Robotics Primer: Micropolis Handbooks, #3

By Micropolis Handbooks

Robotics is a diverse field, mechanically complex and with challenges in software and design. Technology is advancing quickly today, with break-throughs in traditional automation and mechatronics, new approaches in autonomous systems and even the advent of everyday A.I. With new robots, drones or AMRs popping up all over the place, getting started with the subject can be difficult: terms are unknown, concepts are only vaguely familiar, or technical abbreviations are difficult to decipher. What is an AMR (an "autonomous mobile robot")? What are robot ethics? Will robots patrol our streets? What is a SCARA or Cartesian robot?

This Micropolis Robotics Handbook is mainly written in the form of a technical terms glossary, meant as a quick-start guide on robotics. Short paragraphs per term summarize often complex matter to provide you with an overview of the field. Selected terms receive broader discussion in short articles. Several concepts are visualized in black and white illustrations. Organized like an encyclopedia, this basic reference book is a first primer on this fascinating and highly relevant topic of Automation, Industrial and DIY Robots and Industrial Technology.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Micropolis Press
• Release date: Jan 23, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224924547

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Robotics Primer

Micropolis Handbooks

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Micropolis Robotics Primer

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TEC035000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Reference

TEC037000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics

TEC004000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automation

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Micropolis Robotics Primer

Table of Contents

Intro

Actuator

Accuracy

AGV

Android

Animatronics

Arduino

Articulated robots

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Automated delivery system

Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR)

Autonomous

Autonomous vehicle

AUV

Axis naming conventions

Backlash

Bevel gear

Bionics

Brushless Motor

What is a cable?

What is a Cable harness?

Cable Management

Cage

CAN Bus

Cartesian parallel manipulators

Cartesian robots

Centering Station

Closed Loop Control

Coaxial shafts

Collaborative Robot (CoBot)

Collision detection

Controller

Conveyor

Counterweight system

Cybernetics

Cylindrical Robots

Dead Zone

Degrees of Freedom (DoF)

Delta Drive

Delta Robot

Digital Twin

Direct Drive

Direct teaching

Differential

Differential wheeled robot

Domestic robot

Drone

End of Arm Tooling (EOAT)

Emergence

End effector

ESD protection

EtherCAT

Exteroception

What was the First Robot?

Force-Feedback

Feedback Loop

Gantry robot

Gear ratio

Robot Gripper

H-Bridge

Hand-guidance programming

Holonomic

Homing routine

HRI

Human-Machine Interaction

Human-Machine Interface

Humanoid robot

Hypoid gearbox

Industrial Robot

IMU

Industry 4.0

IP code

What are Kinematics?

LiDAR

Link

Limit switch

Robot Locomotion

Linear Actuator

Linear Motor

Mecha

Mechatronics

Mobile robot

Motion Controller

Motion System

MTBF

Newton

OCU

Omnibot

Operating Envelope

Patrol robot

Payload

Perceptual system

Planetary gear

PLC

Polar Robot

Pose

Programmable logic controller

Proprioception

PTZ camera

PWM (pulse width modulation)

Reach

Repeatability

Resolution

Roboethics

What about Robot Soldiers?

Robot

Robot Operating System (ROS or ros)

Robotic Exoskeleton

Robotics

RS232

RS485

RTLinux

S7 (STEP 7)

Self-managed

Sensors

Sensor fusion

Singling station

Singularity

SLAM

Sonar

SCARA Robot

Servo Motor

Standard gravity

Stepper Motor

SPA architecture

Teach Pendant

Teleoperation

Three Laws of Robotics

Timing Belt

Torque

TTL

Robot Types

UAV

Uncanny Valley

Unimate

USRobotics

Via Point

Work Envelope

Worm gear

XY-Gantry

Zero Moment Point (ZMP)

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