Robot Technology Vol. 5 : Logic and Programming

Parent, Michel, Laurgeau, Claude

ISBN 10: 0137821786 / ISBN 13: 9780137821785

Published by Kogan Page, Limited, 1985

Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 40412127-6

Synopsis:

In contrast to the effortless ease with which human beings control their limbs, the design of controllers for robotic manipulator arms is a detailed, meticulous business. Motors controlling the arms need to be started and stopped at just the right moment so that the performance demanded by the user may be achieved at the end of a complicated manoeuvre. And yet, the same user wishes to express the task for the robot in the simplest possible terms without reference to the minute details of control sequences that his task demands. It is the design of such inter faces between man and machine that is the subject of trus volume. Parent and Laurgeau develop the subject in a direct and logical order. They first explain the principles of maximal effort control which not only ensure that motors are driven to provide high accuracy, but also that this should be done with the least waste of energy and in the shortest possible time. In this context, they describe the operation of pneumatic logical devices that make rapid decisions at power levels that exceed, by several orders, those that can be achieved with electronic devices. They achieve this whilst keeping the reader aware of the logical principles that are involved in the design of master control units: the devices responsible for appropriate actions being taken as a function of time."

Bibliographic Details

Title: Robot Technology Vol. 5 : Logic and ...
Publisher: Kogan Page, Limited
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good