What range of robitic arms with pressure sensitive control exist
What range of robitic arms with pressure sensitive control exist
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I am desiging a robitic arm with a pressure sensitive control. I am trying to compare my design ideas to others that exist but I have not been able to find any. If anyone knows of any good sites, or companies I should look at, then please say so.





RE: What range of robitic arms with pressure sensitive control exist
I don't know of any off the shelf robots that let you do this beyond a trip point function so you might have to go to some controller mfgs to get some info on your application. I used delta tau but there are several others that I think should have experience with pressure sensing. Gail, Sanyo Denki and Baldor should probably be able to help. I heard Baldor is doing some R&D in the states so you might be able to get some good info from them if you can get past the sales peeps.
Barry
RE: What range of robitic arms with pressure sensitive control exist
--Steve
RE: What range of robitic arms with pressure sensitive control exist
The robot will have an array of 19 sensors on each finger, and it will have three fingers, so 57 sensors in total. I am quite confident about the design of this part of the robot, and the control should be fine as well, but I am not sure what approach I should take to the mechanics of the machine. I was hoping to get a look at a few existing designs of small scale lifting robots to see what is alreddy on the market.
RE: What range of robitic arms with pressure sensitive control exist
Do a Google search on "Robonaut", as it is using one of the 5-fingered highly dexterous hands I saw at the MIT lab.
You're packing an awful lot of sensors on each finger--that's a pretty heavy computational load!
There is a company called "Robotics Research" in Ohio.
Here's a picture of their arm:
http://www.me.umn.edu/courses/me5286/PastQuizzes/Quiz03...
http://66.175.39.160/RRCTechDoc.PDF
Here's their website:
http://66.175.39.160/
They developed the original arms for the Robonaut project (back when I was working on it at Grumman, and it was the "Flight Telerobotic Servicer")
RE: What range of robitic arms with pressure sensitive control exist
http://www.robocylinder.com/
Good Luck