Automation and Robotics. Robotics

The manual is for students of a profiled secondary school with the following profile: mechanical manufacturing techniques, thematic block - automation of manufacturing processes. Beginning with the introduction of basic concepts used in robotics, such as: cybernetic mechanism, manipulator, robot, pedipulator, walking machine, effector. The following chapters concern the classification of manipulators and industrial robots. The book contains many messages about drives used in robots, manipulators and robots grippers, sensors. Part of the information also applies to the control of robots and manipulators.