Universal Robot (UR Robots)
UR Robot is a robotic arm manufactured by a Denmark company called Universal Robots. It is a type of collaborative robot as it is design to work with human in a same work space.
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Internship Week 6
I have review section for my design with my industrial supervisor. In this week, I was assigned to assemble a prototype for research and development purposes. Besides, I have also attend a sharing section of UR robot and learnt the basic setup and programming of UR robot.
UR description
Benefits of UR robots
- Light weight
- Easy to program
- Have I/O port for external sensors and actuator
- Highly agile
It contains 6 axes of freedom that contributes to high agility. There is three type of movements that the robot can move between defined points called way points. Way points can be the start point, end point and via point which is the intermediate point to guide the moving path. Three of the movements are moveJ (move joint), moveL (move linear) and moveC (move circular). MoveJ will provide the highest moving speed between two points as the robot will move the minimum number of joint to achieve the movement but the path is not linear. MoveL will give linear moving path between two point but give the slowest speed as all the actuators need to be synchronized to ensure linear movement. MoveC will give the intermediate speed but moving in circular path but it required at least three way points to fully define the arc of the path.