Questions tagged [design]
Mechanical, electronic or programmatic design of a robot.
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Robot - Wall Avoiding (Plinko Robot)
I am looking to build a robot that will travel and zig-zag down the hallway.It will be headed towards a wall at roughly 45 degrees and then use a IR LED to detect when a wall is nearby. From there, ...
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What is the corrispettive motion convention for robotic systems with X,Y,Z axis?
We built several systems coupling multiple linear micrometric stages. I can't find a standard defining the axis convention of these kinds of systems, it there are any.
Regarding the system on the ...
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What happened to Butler's car?
Having read the article "This Car Has Electric Brains" in Popular Mechanics, August 1958 I have some questions.
How practical were his methods? Was his work acquired by a car manufacturer or some ...
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Deduce all possible configuration for a given CONF param FANUC
I am working on the "CONF" parameter of FANUC Robots.
The "CONF" param determine the pose of the robot (maybe to have only one inverse kinematics solution). This configuration is ...
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Increasing suction force
I'm trying to increase the suction force of the end effector in a pick and place system. Is it a good idea to add an extra vacuum pump and put it in parallel? AFAIK, having an extra pump in parallel ...
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Design of the baseplate of mobile robot
I need to construct a Mobile robots preferably circular type of diameter 30 cm, it will be carrying a payload of 5kg. What will be optimal thickness the baseplate considering the material as aluminium?...
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How is a shear pad of remote compliance device formed?
I am researching on mechanical design of remote compliance devices (RCC)†. In the RCC, manufactured by ATI, they use shear pads for lateral compliance. They mention that shear pads are ...
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Mechanism to oscillate a human leg?
I'm working on creating a robotic device capable of oscillating an adult human leg using the knee as pivot, being able to constrain the amplitude of oscillation by controlling the mechanism with a ...
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Heavy omnidirectional platform suspension
I'm planning to build an omnidirectional platform that will support about 180kg robotic arm. The platform will be equipped in meccanum wheels. I would like to have some kind of suspension to avoid ...
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I would like to add a prismatic joint to the Z axis of the 6th joint of Urdf
I have a urdf file,urdf of UR5 robot and added a prismatic joint to the end of 6th joint of the robot with the "prismatic_joint" tag (By copying other joints and links)
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Closed Kinematic Chain Forward Kinematics using DH method
I'm dealing with the direct kinematic of a robotic leg, composed by a four bar mechanism coupled with a slider-crank. I understood that I need to identify the closed loops of my leg and I did it: the ...
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Reducing stress on servo axle
I am designing an articulated robot arm that will not need to hold essentially any weight at its end, but that will need to perform thousands of repetitions (currently using MG 996R servos, but might ...
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5 bar linkage hand exoskeleton
I have a project to design a hand exoskeleton for hand rehabilitation. The problem is that i'm thinked I only need the linkage mechanism with multiple 4 bar linkages. But because of human fingers ...
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Natural frequency of robot arm
I want to design a 3 DOF pick and place robotic arm. I've accomplished stress analysis. now i'm going to do frequency analysis. software give me natural frequencies in different configurations. but i ...
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Recommendation for 3D mechanism modeling and simulation software
I'm working on a robotic hand and I would like to simulate different joints and tendon insertion points before starting to actually build it.
I've been googling and found things like Solidworks and ...
