Robotics: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery - Hardcover

Sandler, B. Z.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137816006 ISBN 13: 9780137816002

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1991

Synopsis

For engineers and technical students, this book explains how to approach and solve automatic manufacturing machine-design problems. The author details the methodology of the design process and provides the calculations needed to achieve proper results when applying the design to a real machine, as well as basic information on universal machine devices and the concepts on which they are based. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Robotics: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery is an essential addition to the toolbox of any engineer or hobbyist involved in the design of any type of robot or automated mechanical system. It is the only book available that takes the reader through a step-by step design process in this rapidly advancing specialty area of machine design.
This book provides the professional engineer and student with important and detailed methods and examples of how to design the mechanical parts of robots and automated systems. Most robotics and automation books today emphasis the electrical and control aspects of design without any practical coverage of how to design and build the components, the machine or the system. The author draws on his years of industrial design experience to show the reader the design process by focusing on the real, physical parts of robots and automated systems.|Robotics: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery is an essential addition to the toolbox of any engineer or hobbyist involved in the design of any type of robot or automated mechanical system. It is the only book available that takes the reader through a step-by step design process in this rapidly advancing specialty area of machine design.
This book provides the professional engineer and student with important and detailed methods and examples of how to design the mechanical parts of robots and automated systems. Most robotics and automation books today emphasis the electrical and control aspects of design without any practical coverage of how to design and build the components, the machine or the system. The author draws on his years of industrial design experience to show the reader the design process by focusing on the real, physical parts of robots and automated systems.

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137816006
• ISBN 13: 9780137816002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512