robotics unlimited- the making and the made

INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS

• Robotics deals with the design, construction, operation,and application of robots, as well as computer systems.

• These technologies can take the place of humans orresemble humans in appearance, behaviour or cognition.

• The word robotics was derived from the word robot. Theword robot comes from the Slavic word robota, which meanslabour.

History of robotics

The ancient Greek engineer Hero of Alexandria, produced two texts , Pneumatica and Automata, that testify to the existence of hundreds of different kinds of “wonder” machines capable of automated movement.

One of greatest pioneers of robotics , known to the world as a painter, Leonardo da Vinci, also contributed to develop a bright past of robotics.

The first robots

From The Vinci Times…•Leonardo's robot knight could stand, sit, raise its visor and independently maneuver its arms.

•Leonardo made a mechanical Lion that was able to walk and present flowers at the end of its performance.

Laws of ROBOTICS

•A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

•A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

•A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Components of a perfect robot•Power source•Actuators•Linear actuators•Electric motors•Series elastic actuators•Air muscles•Muscle wires•Electroactive polymers•Piezo motors•Elastic nanotubes•Sensing•Touch •Vision•LIDAR , SONAR , RADAR•General purpose effectors

Different Types Of Robots

•Rolling robots

•One wheeled balancing robots

•Two wheeled balancing robots

•Spherical orb robots

•Six wheeled robots

•Tracked robots

Various locomotion techniques• Walking applied to robots

• ZMP technique

• Hopping

• Dynamic balancing

• Passive dynamics

• Other locomotion like flying, sailing etc.

Some wonders of robotics

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How robotics changed the world• With robots, instead of humans having to perform difficult tasks, you could program the robot to do it.

• Robots have great precision so when they do a task repetitively they will develop better accuracy than a human.

• Bomb disposal squads can use a robot instead of going to the bomb themselves (they control the robot).

• And don't forget that robots can go into places that humans can't like Mars (and other planets) and deep ocean depths.

THE FUTURE OF ROBOTICSOne would assume that the robots of the future would become closer and closer to the decision-making ability of humans and also more independent.

A robot with biped movement is much more difficult to build then a robot with, say, wheels to move around with.

Presumably, once robots have the ability perform a much wider array of tasks, and voice recognition software improves ,they can our housework and carrying out other tasks in the physical world.

Ongoing developments

The million industrial robots worldwide have , according to one recent estimate, created some three million jobs in 8 years.

The global robotics market is now worth €15.5 billion a year, with some €3 billion of that in the EU.

The European Commission, industry and academia are working together to launch a Public Private Partnership (PPP).

The EU's research programmes have funded over 120 robotics projects

By 2020, the whole service robotics market could be worth over €100 billion.

Still the question remains……

do humans create

robots to serve them or

to replace them?

PRESENTED BY

•Biswajyoti Chatterjee•Iman Kalyan Mandal•Santomit Sanyal•Sayan De•Shilon Chaudhury•Tamaghna Jana