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Control and Simulation of a Robot with air Cylinders

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A Pendar Placemate 5 (PP5) robot has been acquired by the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Metallurgy less control system. This paper describes the items of:-

  1. (a)

    mechanical hardware — double gripper and transversing trolley

  2. (b)

    electrical hardware — various control interfaces

  3. (c)

    software — control simulation and operating programs

that have been designed and developed to control this robot suitable for incorporation into a model flexible manufacturing system.

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  1. Teeside Polytechnic, USA

    G. D. Alford

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  1. Division of Manufacturing and Machine Tools, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMIST, UK

    B. J. Davies (Professor of Manufacturing Technology) (Professor of Manufacturing Technology)

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© 1990 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

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Alford, G.D. (1990). Control and Simulation of a Robot with air Cylinders. In: Davies, B.J. (eds) Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth International. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10890-9_1

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