文档介绍：Industrial robots
There are variety of definitions of the term robot. Depending on the definition used, the number of robot installations worldwide varies widely. Numerous single-purpose machines are used in manufacturing plants that might appear to be robots. These machines are hardwried to perform a single function and cannot be reprogrammed to preform a different function. Such single-purpose machines do not fit the definition for industrial robots that is ing widely definition was developed by the Robot Institute of America.
A robot is a reprogrammable multifunctional mainipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks.
Note that this definition contains the words reprogrammable and multifunctional. It is these two characteristics that separate the ture industrial robot from the various single-purpose machines used in modern manufacturing firms. The term “reprogrammable” implies two things: The robot operates according to a written program, and this program can be rewritten to modate a variety of manufactureing tasks.
The term “multifunctional” means that the robot can, through reprogramming and the use of different end-effectors, perform a number of different manufacturing tasks. Definitions written around these two critical characteristics are ing th