CNC Robotics: Build Your Own Workshop Bot

EBook Description: Here�s the FIRST book to offer step-by-step guidelines that walk the reader through the entire process a building a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine from start to finish. Using inexpensive, off-the-shelf parts, readers can build CNC machines with true industrial shop applications such as machining, routing, and cutting�at a fraction of what it would cost to purchase one. * Great for anyone who wants to automate a task in their home shop or small business * Easy-to-use Windows-based software controls the robotic automation * Builders can scale and customize the machine to suit their own industrial needs * Numerous tips, tricks, and pictorials walk the reader through every step�design, construction, and completion YOUR OWN WORKSHOP ROBOT�AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE Nothing improves efficiency in a wood- or metalworking shop�or almost any small manufacturing concern�like a CNC (computer numerical control) robot. But if you�ve priced one, you know the cost is a whopping $7,500 or more. Even plans on the Internet are expensive � and you can�t tell if they suit your needs until you�ve forked over hundreds of dollars. NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME YOU CAN GET COMPLETE DIRECTIONS FOR BUILDING A CNC WORKSHOP BOT FOR A TOTAL COST OF AROUND $1,500! CNC Robotics gives you step-by-step, illustrated directions for designing, constructing, and testing a fully functional CNC robot that saves you 80 percent of the price of an off-the-shelf bot�and that can be customized to suit your purposes exactly, because you designed it. Written by an accomplished workshop bot designer/builder, this book gives you: * Start-to-finish illustrated instructions * Guidance on installing easy-to-understand Windows software for controlling your bot * Plenty of time-saving tips, tricks, and pictorial help along the way * Scaling and customizing instructions for building just the robot that you want * Sources for easily obtained parts * A complete course in workshop bot design and construction, perfect for courses or industry BUILD YOUR OWN WORKSHOP BOT AND BRING SPEED, PRECISION, AND AUTOMATION TO YOUR WORKSHOP!

The word �robot� was introduced by the Czech playright Karel ? Capek in his 1920 play Rossum�s Universal Robots.
The word �robota� in Czech means simply �work.� In spite of such practical beginnings,science fiction writers and early Hollywood movies have given us a romantic notion of robots. Thus, in the 1960s robots held out great promises for miraculously revolutionizing industry overnight. In fact, many of the more far-fetched expectations from robots have failed to materialize. For instance, in underwater assembly and oil mining, teleoperated robots are very difficult to manipulate and have largely been replaced or augmented by �smart� quick-fit couplings that simplify the assembly task. However, through good design practices and painstaking attention to detail, engineers have succeeded in applying robotic systems to a wide variety of industrial and manufacturing situations where the environment is structured or predictable. Today, through developments in computers and artificial intelligence techniques and often motivated by the space program, we are on the verge of another breakthrough in robotics that will afford some levels of autonomy in unstructured environments.
On a practical level, robots are distinguished from other electromechanical motion equipment by their dexterous manipulation capability in that robots can work, position, and move tools and other objects with far greater dexterity than other machines found in the factory. Process robot systems are functional components with grippers, end effectors, sensors, and process equipment organized to perform a controlled sequence of tasks to execute a process � they require sophisticated control systems.
The first successful commercial implementation of process robotics was in the U.S. automobile industry. The word �automation� was coined in the 1940s at Ford Motor Company, as a contraction of �automatic motivation.� By 1985 thousands of spot welding, machine loading, and material handling applications were working reliably. It is no longer possible to mass produce automobiles while meeting currently accepted quality and cost levels without using robots. By the beginning of 1995 there were over 25,000 robots in use in the U.S. automobile industry. More are applied to spot welding than any other process. For all applications and industries, the world�s stock of robots is expected to exceed 1,000,000 units by 1999.
The single most important factor in robot technology development to date has been the use of microprocessor-based control. By 1975 microprocessor controllers for robots made programming and executing coordinated motion of complex multiple degrees-of-freedom (DOF) robots practical and reliable. The robot industry experienced rapid growth and humans were replaced in several manufacturing processes requiring tool and/or workpiece manipulation. As a result the immediate and cumulative dangers of exposure of workers to manipulation-related hazards once accepted as necessary costs have been removed.
A distinguishing feature of robotics is its multidisciplinary nature � to successfully design robotic systems one must have a grasp of electrical, mechanical, industrial, and computer engineering, as well as economics and business practices. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a background in all these areas so that design for robotic applications may be confronted from a position of insight and confidence. The material covered here falls into two broad areas: function and analysis of the single robot, and design and analysis of robot-based systems and workcells. Section 14.2 presents the available configurations of commercial robot manipulators, with Section 14.3 providing a follow-on in mathematical terms of basic robot geometric issues. The next four sections provide particulars in end-effectors and tooling, sensors and actuators, robot programming languages, and dynamics and real-time control. Section 14.8 deals with planning and intelligent control. The next three sections cover the design of
robotic systems for manufacturing and material handling. Specifically, Section 14.9 covers workcell layout and part feeding, Section 14.10 covers product design and economic analysis, and Section 14.11 deals with manufacturing and industrial processes. The final section deals with some special classes of robots including mobile robots, lightweight flexible arms, and the versatile parallel-link arms including the Stewart platform.

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Drives and Control for Industrial Automation

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Linux users can now control their homes remotely! Are you a Linux user who has ever wanted to turn on the lights in your house, or open and close the curtains, while away on holiday? Want to be able to play the same music in every room, controlled from your laptop or mobile phone? Do you want to do these things without an expensive off-the-shelf kit?
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What you�ll learn
Control appliances like kettles and curtains both locally and remotely.
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Hack/change existing hardware/software to better fit your needs.
Integrate various technologies into a function greater than the whole.
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Who is this book for?
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Self-Service and Workflow Automation for the Private Cloud

The Private Cloud offers the promise of quick and easy application and infrastructure provisioning, driving business agility and efficiency.
However, unrestricted access can result in virtual sprawl and poor placement of VMs and applications, undermining these benefits and introducing additional costs and risks.
To achieve the right balance of self-service and control, Cloud architects need to include both self service portal and intelligent workflow technologies in their designs. These technologies support data collection, dynamic approvals, formatted email notifications, and rules based placements, while at the same accurately accounting for software license inventories and driving automation. John MacLean from the VMware Service Manager group will discuss this topic in more detail and give a technology preview of some key technologies that we�re working on to deliver self-service and workflow automation in the private cloud.

Electronic Design Automation: Synthesis, Verification, and Test

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* Comprehensive coverage of EDA concepts, principles, data structures, algorithms, and architectures...helps all readers improve their VLSI design competence;
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Learn AppleScript: The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X, Third Edition has been completely updated for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It�s all here, with an emphasis on practical information that will help you solve any automation problem�from the most mundane repetitive tasks to highly integrated workflows of complex systems.

Friendly enough for beginners, detailed enough for advanced AppleScripters
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Robot Development Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

It includes an extensive array of examples, with corresponding step-by-step tutorials and explanations.
The first several chapters of the book introduce the development environment of MSRDS, including concurrency and coordination runtime (CCR), decentralized software services (DSS), visual simulation environment (VSE), and the Microsoft Visual Programming Language (MVPL). The text then covers the inputs and outputs to the robot and control logic and describes how MSRDS can be used to control a LEGO robot's hearing and vision. It also presents a real-life example involving a sumo robot contest. The final chapter provides information on related academic courses, websites, and books.
The top-down approach used in this text helps readers think of a robot as a system rather than an assemblage of parts. Readers gain an understanding of methods for integration, design trade-offs, and teamwork-all essential skills for building robots.

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The development of the Internet and World Wide Web technology has motivated the introduction of new ways for distance learning and education. This book provides a timely and cohesive set of contributions that present methodologies, technologies and practical tools for teaching control and robotic systems analysis and design over the Web. It is the first book of its kind in control and robotics education.
The emphasis is placed on the two major means for web-based control and robotics education, viz. virtual labs and telelabs. In a virtual lab the remote student can use a simulation/animation of the system under control for the experiments, whereas in a telelab the student can remotely conduct real physical experiments via the Web.

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