Robotics: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery
B.Z. SandlerPrentice-Hall1991479 pp.ISBN 0-13-781683-9Price unknown
Keywords: Robotics, Automation, Design
This book provides the fundamental concepts required for designing automatic machines. It focuses on the industrial application of automated machinery and deals with the mechanics and mechanical problems associated with them.
Chapter 1 gives a Brief Historical review and Main Definitions of robotics. It introduces the various kinds of robots, the structure of automatic industrial machines, and the relationship between the level of robot "intelligence" and the product.
Concepts and Layouts are discussed in chapter 2, while chapter 3 addresses the Dynamic Analysis of Drives. Topics covered in these sections include: how to determine the productivity of a manufacturing process; mechanically driven bodies; electromagnetic, electric, hydraulic and pneumatic drives; and drives with a variable moment of inertia.
Kinematics and Control of Automatic Machines are addressed in chapter 4,along with automatic vibration damping. Chapter 5 discusses Feedback Sensors and covers linear and angular displacement sensors; speed and flow-rate sensors; and force, temperature and item presence sensors.
Chapters 6 and 7 discuss Transporting Devices, and Feeding and Orientation Devices, respectively. Topics covered in these sections include: linear,rotational and vibrational transportation; feeding of liquid and granular materials; active, passive and logical orientation; and orientation by nonmechanical means.
Functional Systems and Mechanisms are addressed in chapter 8 and discusses automatic assembling, special means for assembly, and inspection systems. The final chapter of the book discusses Manipulators. It presents the dynamics and kinematics of manipulators; grippers and guides; and a short review of mobile and walking robots.
"Robotics: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery" is informative and easy to read. It is a good introduction to robotics and automated machinery but unfortunately does not contain many references.
