I am enrolling in an 8-module course about Robotics Design, and I will try to summarize it step by step to share this interesting knowledge.
First module: Fundamentals of Robotics
Robotics is a relatively new science, going back to the fourteen or fifteenth century. For some people, Robotics is a hobby. For others, it is a science fiction genre. For some, it is an engineering discipline or industrial technology. Robotics is also a controversial subject, often misrepresented in popular media.
No single definition can satisfy such a variety of perspectives and interests as those of Robotics. Robotics is the intelligence connection of perception to action
The history of robotics started with Leonardo da Vinci, who, in 1495, designed a mechanical device that looked like an armoured knight. In 1920, the Czechoslovakian playwright Karel Capec introduced the word "Robot" in the play "Rossum's Universal Robots". The word came from the Czech "Robota", meaning "tedious labour".
According to Issac Asimov, three fundamental laws regulates Robotics:
1-First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2-Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3-Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law.
*The Zeroth Law says that a robot may not injure humanity, or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm.
There are five myths and facts about Robotics Technology today:
1-Robots are intended to eliminate jobs (myth)
2-Manufacturing and logistics must adopt robots to survive (fact)
3-Autonomous robots are still slow (fact)
4-Robots are too expensive (myth)
5- Robots are difficult to use (fact)
Robots fall into three main categories:
1) Industrial robots (manipulators)
2) Fields and service robots (humanoids, medical robots, walking robots, etc)
3) Entertainment and educational robots
Rehabilitation robotics is a field of research dedicated to understanding and augmenting rehabilitation through the application of robotic devices.
Rehabilitation robotics includes the development of robotic therapies, and the use of robots as therapy aids instead of solely assistive devices.
Manipulator Kinematics, which forms the basis for learning robotics in many applications, particularly in fields and service robotics, is about the position and velocity relationship in robotics. In terms of the robotic arm, the orientation of the tool and its position, with respect to the reference frame, may call for the homogeneous transformation matrix.
