Robot Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Illustrated - Profe Saul
Robot Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Illustrated - Profe Saul
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)