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Robot Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Illustrated - Profe Saul

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Index 297<br />

(motion control systems cont.)<br />

multiaxis X-Y-Z motion platform, 3f<br />

open-loop systems, 9f<br />

solenoids, 60–66<br />

motion interpolation, 10<br />

motor drivers<br />

in motion control system, 3<br />

types, 18–19<br />

velocity control loops, 5–6, 6f<br />

motor selection, 16–18t. See also electric motors<br />

mud, 233<br />

N<br />

Nasif, Annette K., 145<br />

null position, in LVDTs, 54<br />

O<br />

obstacle height, 134<br />

offset joints, 245f–246<br />

open-loop motion control systems, 9f<br />

Optomec Design Company, xxx<br />

O-ring belts, 73, 74f<br />

P<br />

parallel shafts, coupling, 115f<br />

permanent-magnet (PM) DC servomotors<br />

about, 16–17, 18t<br />

brushless, 26–31, 27f, 28f<br />

brush-type, 22–23, 26f<br />

cup- or shell-type, 24–25f<br />

disk-type, 23–24f<br />

permanent magnet torque limiters, 121f<br />

pinch volume, 168–169<br />

pinions, 89, 103f–104<br />

pipe crawler mobility systems<br />

about, 219–220<br />

external pipe vehicles, 226<br />

horizontal crawlers, 220f–221f<br />

inchworm multi-section bladders, 225f<br />

inchworm multi-section roller walkers, 225f<br />

tracked crawlers, 224f<br />

vertical crawlers, 221–223f, 222f<br />

traction techniques, 222<br />

wheeled crawlers, 223f<br />

pitch, 87<br />

pitch circle, 87<br />

pitch diameter, 88<br />

pivoting joints, 245f<br />

planetary gear drives, 95–96f, 105f<br />

plastic-<strong>and</strong>-cable chain, 77–79f, 78f<br />

point-to-point motion control, 9–10<br />

position control loops, 6f<br />

positioning accuracy, 9<br />

potentiometers, 20<br />

potentiometers, precision multiturn, 59f–60<br />

power transfer devices. See direct power transfer devices;<br />

indirect power transfer devices<br />

pressure angle, 88<br />

programmable logic controller, 3<br />

proportional control feedback, 8<br />

proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control feedback, 9<br />

proprioceptive sensors, 265, 266. See also limit switches,<br />

mechanical<br />

pulse-width modulated (PWM) amplifiers, 19<br />

R<br />

rack <strong>and</strong> pinion chain drive, 82f<br />

rack gears, 89<br />

Rapid Prototyping Laboratory, xxxii<br />

Rapid Prototyping (RP) technology<br />

about, xiv–xvi<br />

computer-aided design (CAD), xiv, xvi<br />

prototyping choices, xvi–xxx<br />

research <strong>and</strong> development, xxx–xxxiii<br />

rapid tooling (RT), xvi<br />

rear transverse rockers, 143f<br />

reliability, <strong>and</strong> actuator count, 68<br />

resolvers, 20, 30f, 49f–51<br />

reversed tricycle, 137–139f, 138f<br />

revolver, 6f<br />

right-angle gearheads, 102, 103f<br />

right-h<strong>and</strong>ed coordinate system, 4f<br />

robot, term defined, xiii<br />

rocker bogie suspension system, 153–155, 154f, 166<br />

rockers, in suspension systems, 142f–143f<br />

roller chain, 80–82f, 81f<br />

roller walkers, 214<br />

rotary encoders, 6, 7f, 13, 19, 43–44<br />

rotor position sensing, 29f–30f<br />

S<br />

s<strong>and</strong>, 233<br />

S<strong>and</strong>ers Prototype Inc., xxviii<br />

Schroff Development Corporation, xxiii<br />

SDM Laboratory, xxx, xxxi<br />

Segway, 135–136<br />

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), xvi, xx–xxi(f)<br />

sensors, feedback. See feedback sensors<br />

sequencing control, 10<br />

servosystems. See closed-loop motion control systems (servosystems)<br />

Shape Deposition Manufacturing (SDM), xxx–xxxii, xxxi(f)

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