Mechatronics 1

Week 1

Learning Outcomes

• What is a robot and analysis on how it works will be presented in this course (week 1 to week 13).

• By the end of this session (week 1), students will understand the terms mechatronics and robots.

Course Outline

• Mechatronics & Robots.

• Industrial robots

• Service robots

• Robot joints

• Robot coordinates

MECHATRONICS 1 (2 + 2 credits)

Mechanics Electronics

Robots + Non Robots

Mechatronics

Robots & Robotics

• Robot– Karel Cepek, a Czechoslovakian playwright, used the

word “Robot” for the first time in his play called R.U.R. - Rossum’s Universal Robot in 1921.

– Robota means worker in Czech language.

• Robotics– The word “Robotics” was introduced by Isaac Asimov

to describe the science of dealing with robotics.– Three laws of Robotics, a well known robotics law by

Isaac Asimov.

Classification of Robot

Classification 1

Industrial Robot

Service Robot

Human Needs

Classification 2

Fixed Robot

Mobile RobotWheeled Robot

Legged Robot

Equipment Needs(no direct contact with people)

Industrial Robot ???

1. British Robot Association (BRA):“ A reprogrammable device designed to both

manipulate and transport parts, tools, or specialised manufacturing implements through variable programmed motions for the performance of specific manipulating tasks.”

2. Robot Institute of America (RIA) :“ A reprogrammable multifunctional manipulator

designed to move material, parts, tools or other specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks.”

Industrial Robot ???

3. Japan Industry Robot Association (JIRA JRA) :

• Manual handling devices• Pick and place devices• Programmable variable sequence

manipulators• Robots taught manually• Robots controlled by a programming

language• Robots which can react to their

environments

Industrial Robot ???

4. International Standard Organization (ISO 8373) :

“ An automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose, manipulator programmable in three or more axes, which may be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications.”

5. Indonesia ? ? ?

Service Robot

International Federation of Robotics (IFR) :

“ A robot which operates semi or fully autonomously to performs services useful to the well being of humans and equipment, excluding manufacturing operations.”

TYPES OF ROBOT (1)

TYPES OF ROBOT (2)