week 1 Flashcards
what does the word robot come from
From the Czech robota meaning “corv´ee”, “serf labour” (unpaid worker).
what was the first robot?
Ctesibius water clock (3rd century BC)
What was the second robot?
Aeolipile or Hero engine (1st century AD)
what was the third robot?
Vaucanson’s duck (1739)
what are the different types of field robotics?
Driving,
Rescue,
Mining,
Aerial,
Space,
Underwater
what are the current different types of humanoid robots?
passive walking,
football,
motion planning,
learning
what are examples of bio-inspired robots?
Cockroach,
snake,
gecko,
cheetah,
filose(fish)
what are examples of human-robot interaction?
social robotics,
human like robots,
safety,
affective robots
what are the definitions of a robot?
-A goal oriented machine that can sense, plan and act (Corke, 2013)
- Automatically controlled, reprogrammable multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes (International Federation of Robotics (IFR))
- A robot is a mechanical or virtual agent, usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by a computer program or electronic circuitry (Wikipedia)
what is a manipulator?
-First robots used in industry (structured environment)
-Static base (cannot move)
-Three main components: Links, joints and end effector (tool)
-Problems: planning, control
what is a mobile robot?
-Mostly used for research
- They can move in the environment
- Locomotive system: airborne, wheeled, legged
- Problems: Localisation, Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), control, planning, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). . .
what are the applications of mobile robots?
-Cleaning: Trilobite, roomba, scooba. . .
- Transportation: robuCAB. . .
- Defence and security: robuROC, FirstLook, PackBot. . .
- Inspection: Alstom. . .
what are some applications of robots?
-Medical
-social
-aerial
-mining
