Industrial automation and robotics technology

Industrial automation and robotics technology

ABSTRACT:

Automation and robotics are two closely related technologies. In industrial content, we define automation as a technology that is concerned with the use of mechanical, electronic and computer-based system in the operation and control of production. Examples of automation include transfer lines, mechanized assembly machines; feedback control systems numerically control machine tools and robots. Accordingly, robotics is a form of industrial automation.

There are three broad classes of industrial automation fixed, programmable and flexible. Of the three types of automation robotics coincides closely with programmable automation. An industrial robot is a general–purpose, programmable machine which possesses certain anthropomorphic or human like characteristic the robot can be programmed to move its arm through a sequence of motions in order to perform some useful task. The programming feature allows robots to be used for a variety of industrial operation which involve robot working together with other pieces of automated or semi automated equipment.

Today the human analogy of an industrial robot is very limited. Future robots are likely to have a greater number of attributes of humans. They are likely to have greater sensor capabilities, more intelligence, a higher level of manual dexterity, and limited degree of mobility. There is no denying that technology of robotics is moving in a direction to provide these machines with more and more capabilities like those of humans.


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