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Autonomous robot obstacle avoidance using a fuzzy logic control schemeWilliam MartinSubmitted on December 4, 2009CS311 - Final Project1. INTRODUCTIONOne of the considerable hurdles to overcome, when trying to describe areal-world control scheme with first-order logic, is the strong ambiguity found in both semantics and evaluations. Although one option is to utilize probability theory in order to come up with a more realistic model, this still relies on obtaining information about an agent's environment with some amount of precision. However, fuzzy logic allows an agent to exploit inexactness in its collected data by allowing for a level of tolerance. This can be especially important when high precision or accuracy in a measurement is quite costly. For example, ultrasonic and infrared range sensors allow for fast and cost effective distance measurements with varying uncertainty. The proposed applications for fuzzy logic range from controlling robotic hands with six degrees of freedom1 to filtering noise from a digital signal.2 Due to its easy implementation, fuzzy logic control has been popular for industrial applications when advanced differential equations become either computationally expensive or offer no known solution. This project is an attempt to take advantage of these fuzzy logic simplifications in order to implement simple obstacle avoidance for a mobile robot. 2. PHYSICAL ROBOT IMPLEMENTATION2.1. Chassis and sensorsThe robotic vehicle's chassis was constructed from an Excalibur EI-MSD2003 remote control toy tank. The device was stripped of all electronics, gears, and extraneous parts in order to work with just the empty case and two DC motors for the tank treads. However, this left a somewhat uneven surface to work on, so high-density polyethylene (HDPE) rods were used to fill in empty spaces. Since HDPE has a rather low surface energy, which is not ideal for bonding with other materials, a propanetorch was used to raise surface temperature and improve bonding with an epoxy adhesive.Three Sharp GP2D12 infrared sensors, which have a range of 10 to 80 cm, were used for distance measurements. In order to mount these appropriately, a 2.5 by 15 cm piece of aluminum was bent into three even pieces at 135 degree angles. This allows for the IR sensors to take three different measurements at 45 degree angles (right, middle, and left distances). This sensor mount was then attached to an HDPE rod with mounting tape and the rod was glued to the tank base with epoxy. Since the minimum distance that can be reliably measured with these sensors is 10 cm, the sensors were placed about 9 cm from the front of the vehicle. This allowed measurements to be taken very close to the front of the robot.2.2. ElectronicsIn order to control the speed of each motor, pulse-width modulation (PWM) was used to drive two L2722 op amps in open loop mode (Fig. 1). The high input resistance of these ICs allow for the motors to be powered with very little power draw from the PWM circuitry. In order to isolate the motor's power supply from the rest of the electronics, a 9.6 V NiCad battery was used separately from a standard 9 V that demand on the op amps led to a small amount of overheating during continuous operation. This was remedied by adding small heat sinks and a fan to the forcibly disperse heat.Fig. 1. The control circuit used for driving each DC motor. Note that the PWM signal was between 0 and 5 V.2.3. MicrocontrollerComputation was handled by an Arduino Duemilanove board with anATmega328 microcontroller. The board has low power requirements and modifications. In addition, it has a large number of prototyping of the control circuit and based on the Wiring language. This board provided an easy and low-cost platform to build the robot around.3. FUZZY CONTROL SCHEME FORIn order to apply fuzzy logic to the robot to interpret measured distances. While the final algorithm depended critically on the geometry of the robot itself and how it operates, some basic guidelines were followed. Similar research projects provided both simulation results and ideas for implementing fuzzy control.3,4,53.1. Membership functionsThree sets of membership functions were created to express degrees of membership for distances, translational speeds, and rotational speeds. This made for a total of two input membership functions and eight output membership functions (Fig.2). Triangle and trapezoidal functions were used exclusively since they are quick to compute and easy to modify. Keeping computation time to a minimum was essential so that many sets of data could be analyzed every second (approximately one every 40 milliseconds). The distance membership functions allowed the distances from the IR sensors to be quickly "fuzzified," while the eight speed membership functions converted fuzzy values back into crisp values.3.2.Rule baseOnce the input data was fuzzified, the eight defined fuzzy logic rules (Table I) were executed in order to assign fuzzy values for translational speed and rotation. This resulted in multiple values for the each of the fuzzy output components. It was then necessary to take the maximum of these values as the fuzzy value for each component. Finally, these fuzzy output values were "defuzzified" using themax-product technique and the result was used to update each of the motor speeds.(a)(b)(c)rotational speed. These functions were adapted from similar work done in reference 3.4. RESULTSThe fuzzy control scheme allowed for the robot to quickly respond to obstacles itcould detect in its environment. This allowed it to follow walls and bend aroundcorners decently without hitting any obstacles. However, since the IR sensors'measurements depended on the geometry of surrounding objects, there were times when the robot could not detect obstacles. For example, when the IR beam hit a surface with oblique incidence, it would reflect away from the sensor and not register as an object. In addition, the limited number of rules used may have limited the dynamics of the robot's responses. Some articles suggest as many as forty rules6 should be used, while others tend to present between ten and twenty. Since this project did not explore complex kinematics or computational simulations of the robot, it is difficult to determineexactly how many rules should be used. However, for the purposes of testing fuzzy logic as a navigational aide, the eight rules were sufficient. Despite the many problems that IR and similar ultrasonic sensors have with reliably obtaining distances, the robustness of fuzzy logic was frequently able to prevent the robot from running into obstacles.5. CONCLUSIONThere are several easy improvements that could be made to future iterations of this project in order to improve the robot's performance. The most dramatic would be to implement the IR or ultrasonic sensors on a servo so that they could each scan a full 180 degrees. However, this type of overhaul may undermine some of fuzzy logic's helpful simplicity. Another helpful tactic would be to use a few types of sensors so that data could be taken at multiple ranges. The IR sensors used in this experiment had a minimum distance of 10 cm, so anything in front of this could not be reliably detected. Similarly, the sensors had a maximum distance of 80 cm so it was difficult to react to objects far away. Ultrasonic sensors do offer significantly increased ranges at a slightly increased cost and response time. Lastly, defining more membership functions could help improve the rule base by creating more fine tuned responses. However, this would again increase the complexity of the system.Thus, this project has successfully implemented a simple fuzzy control scheme for adjusting the heading and speed of a mobile robot. While it is difficult to determine whether this is a worthwhile application without heavily researching other methods, it is quite apparent that fuzzy logic affords a certain level of simplicity in thedesign of a system. Furthermore, it is a novel approach to dealing with high levels of uncertainty in real-world environments.6. REFERENCES1 Ed. M. Jamshidi, N. Vadiee, and T. Ross, Fuzzy logic and control: software and hardware applications, (Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ) 292-328.2 Ibid, 232-261.3 W. L. Xu, S. K. Tso, and Y. H. Fung, "Fuzzy reactive control of a mobile robot incorporating a real/virtual target switching strategy," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 23(3), 171-186 (1998).4 V. Peri and D. Simon, “Fuzzy logic control for an autonomous robot,” 2005 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 337-342 (2005).5 A. Martinez, E. Tunstel, and M. Jamshidi, "Fuzzy-logic based collision-avoidance for a mobile robot," Robotica, 12(6) 521–527 (1994).6 W. L. Xu, S. K. Tso, and Y. H. Fung, "Fuzzy reactive control of a mobile robot incorporating a real/virtual target switching strategy," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 23(3), 171-186 (1998).采用模糊逻辑控制使自主机器人避障设计威廉马丁提交于2009年12月4日CS311 -最终项目1 引言其中一个很大的障碍需要克服，当试图用控制逻辑一阶来描述一个真实世界设计在发现在这两个语义评价中是个强大的模糊区。

外文出处：《Manufacturing Engineering and Technology—Machining》附件1：外文原文ManipulatorRobot developed in recent decades as high-tech automated production equipment. I ndustrial robot is an important branch of industrial robots. It features can be program med to perform tasks in a variety of expectations, in both structure and performance a dvantages of their own people and machines, in particular, reflects the people's intellig ence and adaptability. The accuracy of robot operations and a variety of environments the ability to complete the work in the field of national economy and there are broad p rospects for development. With the development of industrial automation, there has be en CNC machining center, it is in reducing labor intensity, while greatly improved lab or productivity. However, the upper and lower common in CNC machining processes material, usually still use manual or traditional relay-controlled semi-automatic device . The former time-consuming and labor intensive, inefficient; the latter due to design c omplexity, require more relays, wiring complexity, vulnerability to body vibration inte rference, while the existence of poor reliability, fault more maintenance problems and other issues. Programmable Logic Controller PLC-controlled robot control system for materials up and down movement is simple, circuit design is reasonable, with a stron g anti-jamming capability, ensuring the system's reliability, reduced maintenance rate, and improve work efficiency. Robot technology related to mechanics, mechanics, elec trical hydraulic technology, automatic control technology, sensor technology and com puter technology and other fields of science, is a cross-disciplinary integrated technol ogy.First, an overview of industrial manipulatorRobot is a kind of positioning control can be automated and can be re-programmed to change in multi-functional machine, which has multiple degrees of freedom can be used to carry an object in order to complete the work in different environments. Low wages in China, plastic products industry, although still a labor-intensive, mechanical hand use has become increasingly popular. Electronics and automotive industries thatEurope and the United States multinational companies very early in their factories in China, the introduction of automated production. But now the changes are those found in industrial-intensive South China, East China's coastal areas, local plastic processin g plants have also emerged in mechanical watches began to become increasingly inter ested in, because they have to face a high turnover rate of workers, as well as for the workers to pay work-related injuries fee challenges.With the rapid development of China's industrial production, especially the reform and opening up after the rapid increase in the degree of automation to achieve the wor kpiece handling, steering, transmission or operation of brazing, spray gun, wrenches a nd other tools for processing and assembly operations since, which has more and mor e attracted our attention. Robot is to imitate the manual part of the action, according to a given program, track and requirements for automatic capture, handling or operation of the automatic mechanical devices.In real life, you will find this a problem. In the machine shop, the processing of part s loading time is not annoying, and labor productivity is not high, the cost of producti on major, and sometimes man-made incidents will occur, resulting in processing were injured. Think about what could replace it with the processing time of a tour as long a s there are a few people, and can operate 24 hours saturated human right? The answer is yes, but the robot can come to replace it.Production of mechanical hand can increase the automation level of production and labor productivity; can reduce labor intensity, ensuring product quality, to achieve saf e production; particularly in the high-temperature, high pressure, low temperature, lo w pressure, dust, explosive, toxic and radioactive gases such as poor environment can replace the normal working people. Here I would like to think of designing a robot to be used in actual production.Why would a robot designed to provide a pneumatic power: pneumatic robot refers to the compressed air as power source-driven robot. With pressure-driven and other en ergy-driven comparison have the following advantages: 1. Air inexhaustible, used late r discharged into the atmosphere, does not require recycling and disposal, do not pollu te the environment. (Concept of environmental protection) 2. Air stick is small, the pipeline pressure loss is small (typically less than asphalt gas path pressure drop of one-thousandth), to facilitate long-distance transport. 3. Compressed air of the working pre ssure is low (usually 4 to 8 kg / per square centimeter), and therefore moving the mate rial components and manufacturing accuracy requirements can be lowered. 4. With th e hydraulic transmission, compared to its faster action and reaction, which is one of th e advantages pneumatic outstanding. 5. The air cleaner media, it will not degenerate, n ot easy to plug the pipeline. But there are also places where it fly in the ointment: 1. A s the compressibility of air, resulting in poor aerodynamic stability of the work, resulti ng in the implementing agencies as the precision of the velocity and not easily control led. 2. As the use of low atmospheric pressure, the output power can not be too large; i n order to increase the output power is bound to the structure of the entire pneumatic s ystem size increased.With pneumatic drive and compare with other energy sources drive has the followin g advantages:Air inexhaustible, used later discharged into the atmosphere, without recycling and disposal, do not pollute the environment. Accidental or a small amount of leakage wo uld not be a serious impact on production. Viscosity of air is small, the pipeline pressu re loss also is very small, easy long-distance transport.The lower working pressure of compressed air, pneumatic components and therefor e the material and manufacturing accuracy requirements can be lowered. In general, re ciprocating thrust in 1 to 2 tons pneumatic economy is better.Compared with the hydraulic transmission, and its faster action and reaction, which is one of the outstanding merits of pneumatic.Clean air medium, it will not degenerate, not easy to plug the pipeline. It can be saf ely used in flammable, explosive and the dust big occasions. Also easy to realize auto matic overload protection.Second, the composition, mechanical handRobot in the form of a variety of forms, some relatively simple, some more complic ated, but the basic form is the same as the composition of the , Usually by the implem enting agencies, transmission systems, control systems and auxiliary devices composed.1.Implementing agenciesManipulator executing agency by the hands, wrists, arms, pillars. Hands are crawlin g institutions, is used to clamp and release the workpiece, and similar to human finger s, to complete the staffing of similar actions. Wrist and fingers and the arm connecting the components can be up and down, left, and rotary movement. A simple mechanical hand can not wrist. Pillars used to support the arm can also be made mobile as needed .2. TransmissionThe actuator to be achieved by the transmission system. Sub-transmission system c ommonly used manipulator mechanical transmission, hydraulic transmission, pneuma tic and electric power transmission and other drive several forms.3. Control SystemManipulator control system's main role is to control the robot according to certain p rocedures, direction, position, speed of action, a simple mechanical hand is generally not set up a dedicated control system, using only trip switches, relays, control valves a nd circuits can be achieved dynamic drive system control, so that implementing agenc ies according to the requirements of action. Action will have to use complex program mable robot controller, the micro-computer control.Three, mechanical hand classification and characteristicsRobots are generally divided into three categories: the first is the general machinery does not require manual hand. It is an independent not affiliated with a particular host device. It can be programmed according to the needs of the task to complete the oper ation of the provisions. It is characterized with ordinary mechanical performance, also has general machinery, memory, intelligence ternary machinery. The second category is the need to manually do it, called the operation of aircraft. It originated in the atom, military industry, first through the operation of machines to complete a particular job, and later developed to operate using radio signals to carry out detecting machines suc h as the Moon. Used in industrial manipulator also fall into this category. The third cat egory is dedicated manipulator, the main subsidiary of the automatic machines or automatic lines, to solve the machine up and down the workpiece material and delivery. T his mechanical hand in foreign countries known as the "Mechanical Hand", which is t he host of services, from the host-driven; exception of a few outside the working proc edures are generally fixed, and therefore special.Main features:First, mechanical hand (the upper and lower material robot, assembly robot, handlin g robot, stacking robot, help robot, vacuum handling machines, vacuum suction crane, labor-saving spreader, pneumatic balancer, etc.).Second, cantilever cranes (cantilever crane, electric chain hoist crane, air balance th e hanging, etc.)Third, rail-type transport system (hanging rail, light rail, single girder cranes, doubl e-beam crane)Four, industrial machinery, application of handManipulator in the mechanization and automation of the production process develo ped a new type of device. In recent years, as electronic technology, especially comput er extensive use of robot development and production of high-tech fields has become a rapidly developed a new technology, which further promoted the development of ro bot, allowing robot to better achieved with the combination of mechanization and auto mation.Although the robot is not as flexible as staff, but it has to the continuous duplication of work and labor, I do not know fatigue, not afraid of danger, the power snatch weig ht characteristics when compared with manual large, therefore, mechanical hand has b een of great importance to many sectors, and increasingly has been applied widely, for example:(1) Machining the workpiece loading and unloading, especially in the automatic lat he, combination machine tool use is more common.(2) In the assembly operations are widely used in the electronics industry, it can be used to assemble printed circuit boards, in the machinery industry It can be used to ass emble parts and components.(3) The working conditions may be poor, monotonous, repetitive easy to sub-fatigue working environment to replace human labor.(4) May be in dangerous situations, such as military goods handling, dangerous go ods and hazardous materials removal and so on..(5) Universe and ocean development.(6), military engineering and biomedical research and testing.Help mechanical hands: also known as the balancer, balance suspended, labor-saving spreader, manual Transfer machine is a kind of weightlessness of manual load system, a novel, time-saving technology for material handling operations booster equipment, belonging to kinds of non-standard design of series products. Customer application ne eds, creating customized cases. Manual operation of a simulation of the automatic ma chinery, it can be a fixed program draws ﹑ handling objects or perform household to ols to accomplish certain specific actions. Application of robot can replace the people engaged in monotonous ﹑ repetitive or heavy manual labor, the mechanization and a utomation of production, instead of people in hazardous environments manual operati on, improving working conditions and ensure personal safety. The late 20th century, 4 0, the United States atomic energy experiments, the first use of radioactive material ha ndling robot, human robot in a safe room to manipulate various operations and experi mentation. 50 years later, manipulator and gradually extended to industrial production sector, for the temperatures, polluted areas, and loading and unloading to take place t he work piece material, but also as an auxiliary device in automatic machine tools, ma chine tools, automatic production lines and processing center applications, the comple tion of the upper and lower material, or From the library take place knife knife and so on according to fixed procedures for the replacement operation. Robot body mainly b y the hand and sports institutions. Agencies with the use of hands and operation of obj ects of different occasions, often there are clamping ﹑ support and adsorption type of care. Movement organs are generally hydraulic pneumatic ﹑﹑ electrical device dri vers. Manipulator can be achieved independently retractable ﹑ rotation and lifting m ovements, generally 2 to 3 degrees of freedom. Robots are widely used in metallurgic al industry, machinery manufacture, light industry and atomic energy sectors.Can mimic some of the staff and arm motor function, a fixd procedure for the capture, handling objects or operating tools, automatic operation device. It can replace hum an labor in order to achieve the production of heavy mechanization and automation th at can operate in hazardous environments to protect the personal safety, which is wide ly used in machinery manufacturing, metallurgy, electronics, light industry and nuclea r power sectors. Mechanical hand tools or other equipment commonly used for additio nal devices, such as the automatic machines or automatic production line handling an d transmission of the workpiece, the replacement of cutting tools in machining centers , etc. generally do not have a separate control device. Some operating devices require direct manipulation by humans; such as the atomic energy sector performs household hazardous materials used in the master-slave manipulator is also often referred to as m echanical hand.Manipulator mainly by hand and sports institutions. Task of hand is holding the wor kpiece (or tool) components, according to grasping objects by shape, size, weight, mat erial and operational requirements of a variety of structural forms, such as clamp type, type and adsorption-based care such as holding. Sports organizations, so that the com pletion of a variety of hand rotation (swing), mobile or compound movements to achie ve the required action, to change the location of objects by grasping and posture. Robot is the automated production of a kind used in the process of crawling and mo ving piece features automatic device, which is mechanized and automated production process developed a new type of device. In recent years, as electronic technology, esp ecially computer extensive use of robot development and production of high-tech fiel ds has become a rapidly developed a new technology, which further promoted the dev elopment of robot, allowing robot to better achieved with the combination of mechani zation and automation. Robot can replace humans completed the risk of duplication of boring work, to reduce human labor intensity and improve labor productivity. Manipu lator has been applied more and more widely, in the machinery industry, it can be use d for parts assembly, work piece handling, loading and unloading, particularly in the a utomation of CNC machine tools, modular machine tools more commonly used. At pr esent, the robot has developed into a FMS flexible manufacturing systems and flexibl e manufacturing cell in an important component of the FMC. The machine tool equipment and machinery in hand together constitute a flexible manufacturing system or a f lexible manufacturing cell, it was adapted to small and medium volume production, y ou can save a huge amount of the work piece conveyor device, compact, and adaptabl e. When the work piece changes, flexible production system is very easy to change wi ll help enterprises to continuously update the marketable variety, improve product qua lity, and better adapt to market competition. At present, China's industrial robot techno logy and its engineering application level and comparable to foreign countries there is a certain distance, application and industrialization of the size of the low level of robo t research and development of a direct impact on raising the level of automation in Ch ina, from the economy, technical considerations are very necessary. Therefore, the stu dy of mechanical hand design is very meaningful.附件1：外文资料翻译译文机械手机械手是近几十年发展起来的一种高科技自动化生产设备。

附件1：外文资料翻译译文一个复杂纸盒的包装机器人Venketesh N。

Dubey英国设计学院，工程和计算机，伯恩茅斯大学，普尔Jian S。

Dai伦敦大学国王学院，英国伦敦大学，伦敦摘要目的—为了展示设计一种可以折叠复杂几何形状的纸盒的多功能包装机的可行性。

设计/方法/方式—这项研究对各种几何形状的纸盒进行研究,将纸盒分为适当的类型以及机器可以实现的操作;把能加工这些纸盒,并进行机械建模和仿真，且最终可以设计和开发的包装机概念化。

研究结果-这种多功能包装机已经被证明是可能的。

只需将这种多功能包装机小型化，并对它投资以促进其发展，这种机器可以成为现实。

研究限制因素/问题-本研究的目的是证明这种包装机的原理，但实际应用需要考虑结合传感器给出了一个紧凑的、便携式系统。

创意/价值—这项设计是独一无二的，并已被证明可以折叠各种复杂形状的纸盒。

关键字：机器人技术包装自动化文章类型：研究论文1 简介产品包装是关键的工业领域之一，以自动化为首要权益.任何产品流通到消费者手中需要某种形式的包装，无论是食品、礼品或医疗用品。

因此，对高速的产品包装有持续的需求。

对于周期性消费品和精美礼品，这项需求更是大大增加.它们要求包装设计新颖且有吸引力，以吸引潜在客户。

通常这类产品用外观精美、形状复杂的纸盒递送。

如果采用手工方法进行包装,不仅令工人感到乏味且操作复杂,也费时和单调。

对于简单的纸盒包装，通过使用沿传送带布置的专用机器，已经获得了实现。

这些机器只能处理固定类型的纸盒，任何形状和结构的变化很难纳入到系统之中。

在大多数情况下，它们需要进行超过40种变化以适应同种类型但大小不同的纸盒，这就意味着每一个特定类型的纸盒需要一条包装生产线。

从一种类型到另一种类型的纸盒折叠组装生产线的转换将会使资本支出增加。

因为这些限制因素和转换生产线的相关成本,包装的灵活性将会失去。

因此,作为一种补充，手工生产线被引进以适应不同类型的纸盒的生产,从而解决转换生产线的问题.它们承担了大约10％的工作订单，并被用作生产促销产品的组装生产线.但是，问题仍然存在,手工生产线上的管理员和操作工需要一个长时间的学习过程，而且与机器生产线不同，劳动伤害主要是源于扭手动作.此外，手工生产线通常被认为是一个季节性的生产力,仍然需要专门的机器长年运行，以节约成本和时间。

1 英文文献翻译1.1 Modern PackagingAuthor：Abstract1. Changing Needs and New RolesLooking back, historical changes are understandable and obvious. That all of them have had an impact on the way products are brought, consumed and packaged is also obvious. What is not so obvious is what tomorrow will bring. Yet, it is to the needs, markets, and conditions of tomorrow that packaging professionals must always turn their attention.The forces that drove packaging during the Industry Revolution continue to operate today. The consumer society continues to grow and is possibly best described by a 1988s bumper sticker, “Born to Shop”. We consume goods today at a rate 4 to 5 times greater than we did as recently as 1935. Most of these goods are not essential to survival; they constitute what we may call “the good life”.In the second half of the 20th century， the proliferation of goods was so high that packaging was forced into an entirely new role, that of providing the motivation rather than presenting the goods itself. On a shelf of 10 competing products, all of them similar in performance and quality, the only method of differentiating became the package itself. Marketer aimed at lifestyles, emotional values, subliminal images, features, and advantages beyond the basic product rather than the competitor’s. In some in instances, the package has become the product, and occasionally packaging has become entertainment.A brand product to carry the product manufacturer or product sales of theretailer’s label, usually by the buyer as a quality assessment guidance. In some cases, competing brands of product quality is almost no difference, a difference is the sale of its packaging. An interesting visually attractive packaging can give a key marketing advantage and convince impulse spending. However, the packaging should accurately reflect the quality of products/brand value in order to avoid the disappointment of consumers, encourage repeat purchases and build brand loyalty. Ideally, the product should exceed customer expectations.2. Packaging and the Modern Industrial SocietyThe importance of packaging to a modern industrial society is most evident when we examine the food-packaging sector. Food is organic in nature, having an animal or plant source. One characteristic of such organic matter is that, by and large, it has a limited natural biological life.A cut of meat, left to itself, might be unfit for human consumption by the next day. Some animal protein products, such as seafood, can deteriorate within hours.The natural shelf life of plant-based food depends on the species and plant involved. Pulpy fruit portions tend to have a short life span, while seed parts, which in nature have to survive at least separated from the living plant are usually short-lived.In addition to having a limited natural shelf life, most food is geographically and season-ally specific. Thus, potatoes and apples are grown in a few North American geographical regions and harvest during a short maturation period. In a world without packaging，we would need to live at the point of harvest to enjoy these products, and our enjoyment of them would be restricted to the natural biological life span of each. It is by proper storage, packaging and transport techniques that we are able to deliver fresh potatoes and apples, or the products derived from them, throughout the year and throughout the country. Potato-whole,canned, powdered, flaked, chipped, frozen, and instant is available, anytime, anywhere. This ability gives a society great freedom and mobility. Unlike less-developed societies, we are no longer restricted in our choice of where to live, since we are no longer tied to the food-producing ability of an area. Food production becomes more specialized and efficient with the growth of packaging. Crops and animal husbandry are moved to where their production is most economical, without regard to the proximity of a market. Most important, we are free of the natural cycles of feast and famine that are typical of societies dependent on natural regional food-producing cycles.Central processing allows value recovery from what would normally be waste by products of the processed food industry from the basis of other sub-industries. Chicken feathers are high in protein and, properly mill and treated, can be fed back to the next generation of chickens. Vegetable waste is fed to cattle or pigs. Bagasse, the waste cane from sugar pressing, is a source of fiber for papermaking. Fish scales are refined to make additives for paints and nail polish.The economical manufacture of durable goods also depends on good packaging.A product's cost is directly related to production volume. The business drive to reduce costs in the supply chain must be carefully balanced against the fundamental technical requirements for food safety and product integrity, as well as the need to ensure an. efficient logistics service. In addition, there is a requirement to meet the aims of marketing to protect and project brand image through value-added pack design. The latter may involve design inputs that communicate distinctive, aesthetically pleasing, ergonomic, functional and/or environmentally aware attributes. But for a national or international bicycle producer to succeed, it must be a way of getting the product to a market, which may be half a world away. Again, sound packaging, in this case distributionpackaging, is a key part of the system.Some industries could not exist without an international market. For example, Canada is a manufacturer of irradiation equipment, but the Canadian market (which would account for perhaps one unit every several years) could not possibly support such a manufacturing capability. However, by selling to the world, a manufacturing facility becomes viable. In addition to needing packaging for the irradiation machinery and instrumentation, the sale of irradiation equipment requires the sale packaging and transport of radioactive isotopes, a separate challenge in itself. In response to changing consumer lifestyles, the large retail groups and the food service industry development. Their success has been involved in a competition fierce hybrid logistics, trade, marketing and customer service expertise, all of which is dependent on the quality of packaging. They have in part led to the expansion of the dramatic range of products offered, technology innovation, including those in the packaging. Supply retail, food processing and packaging industry will continue to expand its international operations. Sourcing products around the world more and more to assist in reducing trade barriers. The impact of the decline has been increased competition and price pressure. Increased competition led to the rationalization of industrial structure, often in the form of mergers and acquisitions. Packaging, it means that new materials and shapes, increased automation, packaging, size range extension of lower unit cost. Another manufacturer and mergers and acquisitions, the Group's brand of retail packaging and packaging design re-evaluation of the growing development of market segmentation and global food supply chain to promote the use of advanced logistics and packaging systems packaging logistics system is an integral part of, and played an important role in prevention in the food supply or reduce waste generation.3. World Packaging.This discussion has referred to primitive packaging and the evolution of packaging functions. However, humankind's global progress is such that virtually every stage in the development of society and packaging is present somewhere in the world today. Thus, a packager in a highly developed country will agonize over choice of package type, hire expensive marketing groups to develop images to entice the targeted buyer and spend lavishly on graphics. In less-developed countries, consumers are happy to have food, regardless of the package. At the extreme, consumers will bring their own packages or will consume food on the spot, just as they did 2000 years ago.Packagers from the more developed countries sometimes have difficulty working with less-developed nations, for the simple reason that they fail to understand that their respective packaging priorities are completely different. Similarly, developing nations trying to sell goods to North American markets cannot understand our preoccupation with package and graphics.The significant difference is that packaging plays a different role in a market where rice will sell solely because it is available. In the North American market, the consumer may be confronted by five different companies offering rice in 30 or so variations. If all the rice is good and none is inferior, how does a seller create a preference for his particular rice? How does he differentiate? The package plays a large role in this process.The package-intensive developed countries are sometimes criticized for over packaging, and certainly over-packaging does exist. However, North Americans also enjoy the world's cheapest food, requiring only about 11 to 14% of our disposable income. European food costs are about 20% of disposable income, and in the less-developed countries food can take 95%of family income.4. The status and development trend of domestic and international packaging machineryWorldwide, the history of the development of the packaging machinery industry is relatively short, science and technology developed in Europe and America in general started in the 20th century until the 1950s the pace greatly accelerated.From the early 20th century, before the end of World War II World War II，medicine，food, cigarettes，matches，household chemicals and other industrial sectors, the mechanization of the packaging operations; the 1950s, the packaging machine widely used common electric switches and tube for the main components of the control system to achieve the primary automation; 1960s, Electrical and optical liquid-gas technology is significantly increased in the packaging machine, machines to further expand on this basis a dedicated automated packaging line; the 1970s, the micro- electronic technology into the automation of packaging machines and packaging lines, computer control packing production process; from the 1980s to the early 1990s, in some field of packaging, computer, robot application for service, testing and management, in preparation for the over-flexible automatic packaging lines and "no" automatic packaging workshop.Actively promoted and strong co-ordination of all aspects of society, and gradually establish a packaging material, packaging, printing, packaging machinery and other production sectors, and corresponding to the research, design, education, academic, management and organization, and thus the formation of independent and complete. The packaging of light industrial system, and occupies an important place in the national economy as a whole.Based on recent years data that members of the World Packaging Alliance output value of the packaging industry accounts for about 2% of the total output value of the national economy; in which the proportion of packaging machinery, though not large, but the rapid development of an annual average of almost growing at a rate of about 10%. Put into use at the packaging machine is now more than thousand species of packaging joint machines and automated equipment has been stand-alone equate. According to the new technological revolution in the world development trend is expected to packaging materials and packaging process and packaging machinery will be closely related to obtain the breakthrough of a new step, and bring more sectors into the packaging industry.China Packaging Technology Association was established in 1980. Soon, the China National Packaging Corporation have been born. Since then, one after another in the country organized a national and international packaging machinery exhibition, seminars, also published I had the first ever "China Packaging Yearbook and other packaging technology books. All this indicates that China is creating a new packaging historical perio d.1.2中文翻译现代包装1、不断变化的需求和新的角色,回顾以往,包装所带来明显的历史性变化是可以理解的, 一个产品包装方式的给他们的销量带来的影响也是显而易见的。

机器人技术的发展论文中英文对照资料外文翻译文献摘要随着科技的不断发展，机器人技术在各个领域得到了广泛的应用。

本文翻译了几篇关于机器人技术的发展的文献，这些文献包括中文和英文内容。

其中，有关于机器人对人类生活的影响的讨论，也有机器人在工业、医疗等领域中的应用。

这些文献为大家提供了对机器人技术的深入了解，对于有关机器人技术的研究具有一定的参考价值。

正文中文文献机器人与人类生活随着机器人技术的不断发展，机器人已经开始逐渐进入人们的日常生活。

机器人从一开始的只能执行简单的任务，到现在已经能够和人类进行交互，甚至是取代人类在某些领域的工作。

随着机器人不断普及，对于机器人技术的伦理问题也越来越引人注目。

例如，机器人将如何与人类共存？机器人将如何对人类的生活产生影响？这些问题都亟待解决。

工业领域中的机器人工业领域是机器人技术得到广泛应用的领域之一。

机器人在工业生产中的应用不仅可以提高生产效率，还能减少人工操作对环境造成的影响。

目前，工业机器人已经能够完成许多需要人脑思考的任务，例如对产品进行分类、贴标签等。

随着机器人技术的不断发展，相信未来机器人在工业领域中的应用也会越来越广泛。

医疗领域中的机器人医疗领域是机器人技术应用的另一个重要领域。

机器人在医疗中的应用包括手术机器人、护理机器人等。

手术机器人可以进行精细的手术操作，并且可以通过微创手术减少患者的痛苦。

护理机器人可以为需要护理的人提供便利和帮助，减轻护理人员的负担。

这些机器人的出现，不仅提高了医疗领域的工作效率，还帮助了许多需要医疗服务的人。

英文文献Advances in Robotics TechnologyThis article reviews the recent advances in robotics technology. One of the biggest usages of robots is in the industrial sector, where the use in manufacturing process yields benefits such as increased efficiency and reduced costs. There are also a variety of robots for medical purposes, such as surgery and rehabilitation. In addition, robots are being used in the military and exploration of hostile environments to reduce risk to human life. The article concludes that robotics technology will continue to evolve and transform various industries with the potential to improve efficiency and reduce human error.Social Interaction with Robots结论本文翻译了关于机器人技术发展的中英文文献，并提供了机器人对人类生活的影响，机器人在工业、医疗中的应用等信息。

机械手臂外文文献翻译、中英文翻译、外文翻译外文出处：《Manufacturing Engineering and Technology—Machining》附件1：外文原文XXXRobot XXX decades as high-XXX branch of industrial robots. It features can be programmed to perform tasks in a variety of expectations, in both structure and performance advantages of their own people and machines, in particular, XXX the work in the field of national economy and there are broad prospects for development. With the development of industrial automation, there has been CNC machining center, it is in reducing labor intensity, XXX, the upper and lower common in CNC machining processesmaterial, usually still use XXX relay-controlled semi-automatic device. The former time-consuming and labor intensive, inefficient; XXX, require more relays, XXX, XXX interference, XXX, XXX Programmable Logic Controller PLC-controlled robot control system formaterials up and down movement is simple, circuit design is reasonable, with a strong anti-jamming capability, ensuring the system'XXX, reduced maintenance rate,and XXXmechanics, mechanics, XXX, XXX, XXX and other fields of science, is a cross-disciplinary XXX.First, an overview of industrial manipulatorRobot is a kind of positioning control can be automated and can be re-programmedto change in multi-functional machine, which has multiple degrees of freedom can beused to carry an object in order to XXX China, plastic products industry, although still a labor-intensive, XXX1Europe and the United XXX, XXX-intensive South China, East China's coastal areas, XXX, because they have to face a high turnover rate of workers, as well as for theworkers to pay work-related injuries XXX.With the rapid development of China's industrial production, especially the reformand XXX workpiece handling, steering, XXX brazing, spray gun, wrenches and other tools for processing and assembly operations since, which has more and more attracted our attention. Robot is to imitate the manual part of the action,according toa given program, track and requirements for automatic capture, XXX.In real life, you will find this a problem. In the machine shop, the processing of parts loading time is not annoying, and labor productivity is not high, the cost of production major, and sometimes man-made incidents will occur, resulting in processing wereinjured. Think about what could replace it with the processing time of a tour as long as there are a few people, and can operate 24 hours saturated human right? The answeris yes, but the robot can come to replace it.XXX can increase XXX; XXX, ensuring product quality, to achieve safe production; particularly in the high-temperature, high pressure, low temperature, low pressure, dust, explosive, XXX the normal working people. Here I would like to think of designing a robot tobe used in actual production.XXX power: pneumatic robot refersto the compressed air as power source-driven robot. With pressure-driven and other energy-driven comparison have the following advantages: 1. Air inexhaustible, used XXX, does not require recycling and disposal,do not pollute the XXX. (Concept of environmental protection) 2. Air stick is small, the pi2peline pressure loss is small (typically less than asphalt gas path pressure drop of one-thousandth), to facilitate long-distance transport. 3. Compressed air of the working pressure is low (usually 4 to 8 kg / per square centimeter), and therefore moving the material components and XXX. With the hydraulic transmission, compared to its faster action and reaction, which is one of the advantages pneumatic outstanding. 5. The air cleaner media, it will not degenerate, not easy to plug the pipeline. But there are also places where it fly in the ointment: 1. As the compressibility of air, XXX the work, XXX as the precision of the velocity and not easily controlled. 2. As the use of low atmospheric pressure, the output power can not be too large; in order to increase the output power is bound to the structure of the entire pneumatic system size increased.With pneumatic drive and compare with other energy sources drive has the following advantages:Air inexhaustible, used XXX, without recycling anddisposal, do not pollute the XXX or a small amount of leakage would not be a XXX of air is small, the pipeline pressure loss also is very small, easy long-distance transport.The lower working pressure of compressed air, XXX general, reciprocating thrust in 1 to 2 tons XXX.Compared with the hydraulic transmission, and its faster action and reaction, XXX.Clean air medium, it will not degenerate, not easy to plug the pipeline. It can be safely used in flammable, XXX.Second, XXX, mechanical handRobot in the form of a variety of forms, some relatively simple, some more complicated, but the basic form is the same as the composition of the , Usually by the implementing agencies, transmission systems, control systems and auxiliary devices compose3d.1.Implementing agenciesXXX hands, wrists, arms, pillars. Hands are crawling institutions, is used to clamp and release the workpiece, and similar to human fingers, XXXXXX used to support the arm can also be made mobile as needed.2. TransmissionXXX, hydraulic transmission, XXX.3. Control SystemManipulator control system's main role is to control the robot according to certain procedures, direction, position, speed of action, a simple mechanical hand is generallynot set up a dedicated control system, using only trip switches, relays, control valves and circuits can be achieved dynamic drive system control, so that XXX of action. Action will have to use complex programmable robot controller, the micro-computer control.Three, XXX characteristicsXXX: the first is the general machinerydoes not require manual hand. It is an independent not affiliated with a particular hostdevice. It can be programmed according to the needs of thetask to complete the operation of the provisions. It is XXX, alsohas general machinery, memory, XXX second categoryis the need to manually do it, called the operation of aircraft. It originated in the atom,military industry, first through the operation of machines to complete a particular job,XXX such as the Moon. Used in industrial manipulator also fall into this category. The third category is dedicated manipulator, the XXX auto4matic lines, to solve the machine up and down the XXX known as the "Mechanical Hand", which is the host of services, from the host-driven; exception of a few outside the XXX, XXX.Main features:First, mechanical hand (the upper and lower material robot, assembly robot, handling robot, stacking robot, help robot, vacuum handling machines, vacuum suction crane,labor-saving spreader, pneumatic balancer, etc.).Second, cantilever cranes (cantilever crane, electric chain hoist crane, air balance the hanging, etc.)Third, rail-type transport system (hanging rail, light rail, single girder cranes, double-beam crane)Four, industrial machinery, application of handXXX of the production process developed a new type of device. In recent years, as electronic technology, especially computer extensive use of robot development and production of high-tech fields has XXX, XXX, XXX.Although the robot is not as flexible as staff, but it has to the continuous duplicationof work and labor, I do not know fatigue, not afraid of danger, XXX characteristics when compared with manual large, therefore, mechanical hand has been of great importance to many sectors, and increasingly has been applied widely, forexample:(1) Machining the workpiece loading and unloading, especially in the automatic lathe, combination machine tool use is more common.(2) XXX industry, it can beused to assemble printed circuit boards, XXX industry It can be used to assemble parts and components.(3) The working conditions may be poor, monotonous, repetitive easy to sub-fatigu5XXX.(4) XXX, XXX, XXX..(5) XXX.(6), XXX and testing.Help mechanical hands: also known as the balancer, balance suspended, labor-savingspreader, manual Transfer machine is a kind of weightlessness of manual load system,a novel, time-XXX,belonging to kinds of non-standard design of series products. Customer application needs, XXX of the automatic machinery, it can be a fixed program draws﹑XXX. Application of robot can replace the peopleengaged in monotonous﹑XXX, XXX of production, instead of people in hazardous XXX, XXX personal safety. The late 20th century, 40, the United XXX experiments, the first use of radioactive material handling robot, human robot in a safe room to XXX 50 years later, XXX, for the temperatures, polluted areas, and loading and unloading to take place the work piece material, but also as an auxiliary device in automaticmachine tools, machine tools, automatic production lines and processing center applications, the completion of the upper and lower material, or From the library take place XXX operation. Robot body mainly by the hand and sports XXX with the use of hands and operation of objects of different occasions, often there are clamping﹑XXX﹑﹑XXX﹑XXX, generally 2 to 3 degrees of XXX industry, machinery manufacture, XXX some of the staff and arm motor function, a fixd procedure for the captu6re, handling objects or operating tools, automatic operation device. It can replace human labor in order to achieve the production of heavy XXX the personal safety, which is XXX, metallurgy, electronics, light industry and nuclear power sectors. Mechanical hand tools or other XXX used for additional devices, such as the automatic machines or automatic production line handling and transmission of the workpiece, XXX centers, etc. generally do not have a separate control device. Some operating devices XXX.XXX and sports XXX. Task of hand is holding the workpiece (or tool) components, according to grasping objects by shape, size,weight, material and XXX structural forms, such as clamp type,type and adsorption-based care such as holding. Sports organizations, XXX (swing), XXX the required action, to change the location of objects by grasping and posture.Robot is the automated production of a kind used in the process of crawling and moving piece features automatic device, which is XXX a new type of device. In recent years, as electronic technology, especially computer extensive use of robot development and production of high-tech fields has XXX, XXX, XXX. Robot can replace humans completed the risk of duplication ofboring work, to reduce human XXX widely, in the machinery industry, it can be used for parts assembly, work piece handling, loading and unloadingXXX component of the FMC. The machine tool equip7XXX a flexible manufacturing cell, it was adapted to small and medium volume production, you can save a huge amount of the work piece conveyor device, compact, and adaptable. When the work piece changes, flexible production system is very easy to change will help XXX, improve product quality, and better adapt to market XXX, China'XXX isa certain distance, application andindustrialization of the size of the low level of robot research and development of a direct impact on raising the level of automation in China, from the economy, XXX, the study of mechanical hand design is very meaningful.8附件1：外文资料翻译译文呆板手机械手是近几十年发展起来的一种高科技自动化生产设备。

外文资料robotThe industrial robot is a tool that is used in the manufacturing environment to increase productivity. It can be used to do routine and tedious assembly line jobs，or it can perform jobs that might be hazardous to the human worker . For example ，one of the first industrial robot was used to replace the nuclear fuel rods in nuclear power plants. A human doing this job might be exposed to harmful amounts of radiation. The industrial robot can also operate on the assembly line，putting together small components，such as placing electronic components on a printed circuit board. Thus，the human worker can be relieved of the routine operation of this tedious task. Robots can also be programmed to defuse bombs，to serve the handicapped，and to perform functions in numerous applications in our society.The robot can be thought of as a machine that will move an end-of-tool ，sensor ，and/or gripper to a preprogrammed location. When the robot arrives at this location，it will perform some sort of task .This task could be welding，sealing，machine loading ，machine unloading，or a host of assembly jobs. Generally，this work can be accomplished without the involvement of a human being，except for programming and for turning the system on and off.The basic terminology of robotic systems is introduced in the following:1. A robot is a reprogrammable ，multifunctional manipulator designed to move parts，material，tool，or special devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of different task. This basic definition leads to other definitions，presented in the following paragraphs，that give acomplete picture of a robotic system.2. Preprogrammed locations are paths that the robot must follow to accomplish work，At some of these locations，the robot will stop and perform some operation ，such as assembly of parts，spray painting ，or welding .These preprogrammed locations are stored in the robot’s memory and are recalled later for continuousoperation.Furthermore，these preprogrammed locations，as well as other program data，can be changed later as the work requirements change.Thus，with regard to this programming feature，an industrial robot is very much like a computer ，where data can be stoned and later recalled and edited.3. The manipulator is the arm of the robot .It allows the robot to bend，reach，and twist.This movement is provided by the manipulator’s axes，also called the degrees of freedom of the robot .A robot can have from 3 to 16 axes.The term degrees of freedom will always relate to the number of axes found on a robot.4. The tooling and frippers are not part the robotic system itself;rather，they are attachments that fit on the end of the robot’s arm. These attachments connected to the end of the robot’s arm allow the robot to lift parts，spot-weld ，paint，arc-weld，drill，deburr，and do a variety of tasks，depending on what is required of the robot.5. The robotic system can control the work cell of the operating robot.The work cell of the robot is the total environment in which the robot must perform itstask.Included within this cell may be the controller ，the robot manipulator ，a work table ，safety features，or a conveyor.All the equipment that is required in order for the robot to do its job is included in the work cell .In addition，signals from outside devices can communicate with the robot to tell the robot when it should parts，pick up parts，or unload parts to a conveyor.The robotic system has three basic components: the manipulator，the controller，and the power source.A.ManipulatorThe manipulator ，which does the physical work of the robotic system，consists of two sections:the mechanical section and the attached appendage.The manipulator also has a base to which the appendages are attached.Fig.1 illustrates the connectionof the base and the appendage of a robot.图1.Basic components of a robot’s manipulatorThe base of the manipulator is usually fixed to the floor of the work area. Sometimes，though，the base may be movable. In this case，the base is attached to either a rail or a track，allowing the manipulator to be moved from one location to anther.As mentioned previously ，the appendage extends from the base of the robot. The appendage is the arm of the robot. It can be either a straight ，movable arm or a jointed arm. The jointed arm is also known as an articulated arm.The appendages of the robot manipulator give the manipulator its various axes of motion. These axes are attached to a fixed base ，which，in turn，is secured to a mounting. This mounting ensures that the manipulator will in one location.At the end of the arm ，a wrist（see Fig 2）is connected. The wrist is made up of additional axes and a wrist flange. The wrist flange allows the robot user to connect different tooling to the wrist for different jobs.图2.Elements of a work cell from the topThe manipulator’s axes allow it to perform work within a certain area. The area is called the work cell of the robot ，and its size corresponds to the size of the manipulator.（Fid2）illustrates the work cell of a typical assembly ro bot.As the robot’s physical size increases，the size of the work cell must also increase.The movement of the manipulator is controlled by actuator，or drive systems.The actuator，or drive systems，allows the various axes to move within the work cell. The drive system can use electric，hydraulic，or pneumatic power.The energy developed by the drive system is converted to mechanical power by various mechanical power systems.The drive systems are coupled through mechanical linkages.These linkages，in turn，drive the different axes of the robot.The mechanical linkages may be composed of chain，gear，and ball screws.B.ControllerThe controller in the robotic system is the heart of the operation .The controller stores preprogrammed information for later recall，controls peripheral devices，and communicates with computers within the plant for constant updates in production.The controller is used to control the robot manipulator’s movements as well as to control peripheral components within the work cell. The user can program the movements of the manipulator into the controller through the use of a hard-held teach pendant.This information is stored in the memory of the controller for later recall.The controller stores all program data for the robotic system.It can store several differentprograms，and any of these programs can be edited.The controller is also required to communicate with peripheral equipment within the work cell. For example，the controller has an input line that identifies when a machining operation is completed.When the machine cycle is completed，the input line turn on telling the controller to position the manipulator so that it can pick up the finished part.Then ，a new part is picked up by the manipulator and placed into the machine.Next，the controller signals the machine to start operation.The controller can be made from mechanically operated drums that step through a sequence of events.This type of controller operates with a very simple robotic system.The controllers found on the majority of robotic systems are more complex devices and represent state-of-the-art eletronoics.That is，they are microprocessor-operated.these microprocessors are either 8-bit，16-bit，or 32-bit processors.this power allows the controller to be very flexible in its operation.The controller can send electric signals over communication lines that allow it to talk with the various axes of the manipulator. This two-way communication between the robot manipulator and the controller maintains a constant update of the end the operation of the system.The controller also controls any tooling placed on the end of the robot’s wrist.The controller also has the job of communicating with the different plant computers. The communication link establishes the robot as part a computer-assisted manufacturing （CAM）system.As the basic definition stated，the robot is a reprogrammable，multifunctional manipulator.Therefore，the controller must contain some of memory stage. The microprocessor-based systems operates in conjunction with solid-state devices.These memory devices may be magnetic bubbles，random-access memory，floppy disks，or magnetic tape.Each memory storage device stores program information fir or for editing.C.power supplyThe power supply is the unit that supplies power to the controller and the manipulator. The type of power are delivered to the robotic system. One type of power is the AC power for operation of the controller. The other type of power isused for driving the various axes of the manipulator. For example，if the robot manipulator is controlled by hydraulic or pneumatic drives，control signals are sent to these devices causing motion of the robot.For each robotic system，power is required to operate the manipulator .This power can be developed from either a hydraulic power source，a pneumatic power source，or an electric power source.There power sources are part of the total components of the robotic work cell.中文翻译机器人工业机器人是在生产环境中用以提高生产效率的工具，它能做常规乏味的装配线工作，或能做那些对于工人来说是危险的工作，例如，第一代工业机器人是用来在核电站中更换核燃料棒，如果人去做这项工作，将会遭受有害放射线的辐射。

外文翻译机器人The robot性质: □毕业设计□毕业论文教学院：机电工程学院系别：机械设计制造及其自动化学生学号：学生姓名：专业班级：指导教师：职称：起止日期：机器人1.机器人的作用机器人是高级整合控制论、机械电子、计算机、材料和仿生学的产物。

在工业、医学、农业、建筑业甚至军事等领域中均有重要用途。

现在，国际上对机器人的概念已经逐渐趋近一致。

一般说来，人们都可以接受这种说法，即机器人是靠自身动力和控制能力来实现各种功能的一种机器。

联合国标准化组织采纳了美国机器人协会给机器人下的定义：“一种可编程和多功能的，用来搬运材料、零件、工具的操作机；或是为了执行不同的任务而具有可改变和可编程动作的专门系统。

2.能力评价标准机器人能力的评价标准包括：智能，指感觉和感知，包括记忆、运算、比较、鉴别、判断、决策、学习和逻辑推理等；机能，指变通性、通用性或空间占有性等；物理能，指力、速度、连续运行能力、可靠性、联用性、寿命等。

因此，可以说机器人是具有生物功能的三维空间坐标机器。

3.机器人的组成机器人一般由执行机构、驱动装置、检测装置和控制系统等组成。

执行机构即机器人本体，其臂部一般采用空间开链连杆机构，其中的运动副（转动副或移动副）常称为关节，关节个数通常即为机器人的自由度数。

根据关节配置型式和运动坐标形式的不同，机器人执行机构可分为直角坐标式、圆柱坐标式、极坐标式和关节坐标式等类型。

出于拟人化的考虑，常将机器人本体的有关部位分别称为基座、腰部、臂部、腕部、手部（夹持器或末端执行器）和行走部（对于移动机器人）等。

驱动装置是驱使执行机构运动的机构，按照控制系统发出的指令信号，借助于动力元件使机器人进行动作。

它输入的是电信号，输出的是线、角位移量。

机器人使用的驱动装置主要是电力驱动装置，如步进电机、伺服电机等，此外也有采用液压、气动等驱动装置。

检测装置的作用是实时检测机器人的运动及工作情况，根据需要反馈给控制系统，与设定信息进行比较后，对执行机构进行调整，以保证机器人的动作符合预定的要求。

A Nonlinear Disturbance Observer forRobotic ManipulatorsWen-Hua Chen,Member,IEEE,Donald J.Ballance,Member,IEEE,Peter J.Gawthrop,Senior Member,IEEE,and John O’Reilly,Senior Member,IEEEAbstract—A new nonlinear disturbance observer(NDO) for robotic manipulators is derived in this paper.The global exponential stability of the proposed disturbance observer(DO) is guaranteed by selecting design parameters,which depend on the maximum velocity and physical parameters of robotic manipulators.This new observer overcomes the disadvantages of existing DO’s,which are designed or analyzed by linear system techniques.It can be applied in robotic manipulators for various purposes such as friction compensation,independent joint control, sensorless torque control,and fault diagnosis.The performance of the proposed observer is demonstrated by the friction estimation and compensation for a two-link robotic manipulator.Both simulation and experimental results show the NDO works well. Index Terms—Friction,nonlinear estimation,observers,robots.I.I NTRODUCTIOND ISTURBANCE observers(DO’s)have been used inrobotic manipulator control for a long time.In general, the main objective of the use of DO’s is to deduce external unknown or uncertain disturbance torques without the use of an additional sensor.The use of DO’s in robotic manipulators can be divided into the following categories.1)Independent joint control is widely used in industrialrobots where a multilink manipulator is divided into several independent links with linear dynamics.The per-formance of these kind of controllers can be improved by the use of a DO.This is accomplished by considering the coupling torques from other links as an unknown external disturbance and using a DO to estimate and compensate for it[1].This technique has also been extended to deal with parameter variations and unmodeled dynamics whereby it improves the robustness of robots[2];2)Friction is a common phenomenon in mechanical sys-tems and plays an important role in system performance.Many friction models and compensation methods have been proposed[3].One of the most promising methodsManuscript received December22,1998;revised March23,2000.Abstract published on the Internet April21,2000.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the38th IEEE Control and Decision Conference,Phoenix,AZ, December7–10,1999.This work was supported by the U.K.Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under Grant GR/L62665.W.-H.Chen and J.O’Reilly are with the Centre for Systems and Control, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering,University of Glasgow, Glasgow G128QQ,U.K.(e-mail:w.chen@).D.J.Ballance and P.J.Gawthrop are with the Centre for Systems and Control, Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of Glasgow,Glasgow G12 8QQ,U.K.(e-mail:D.Ballance@).Publisher Item Identifier S0278-0046(00)06805-2.is observer-based control where a DO is used to estimate friction[4];3)DO’s have been used in robotic manipulators for forcefeedback and hybrid position/force control where the DO works as a torque sensor[5]–[7].In this case,it is sup-posed that the friction and other dynamics are well mod-eled and compensated for.The use of a DO,rather than several torque sensors(for each link,at least one torque sensor is required),simplifies the structure of the system, reduces the cost,and improves the reliability.With this technique,sensorless torque control can be implemented[5]–[7].4)Robotic manipulators work in a dynamic highly uncertainenvironment.In this application,DO’s provide signals for monitoring and trajectory planning rather than for control.For example,in robotic assembly when the component is misinserted,the reaction torque/force is greatly increased and could damage the robotic manipulator.A DO can es-timate the reaction torque online and transmit this infor-mation to the monitoring or planning level.Chan[8]usesa DO in electronic component assembly,while Ohishi andOhde[9]give an example of the use of a DO in collision. Although the DO technique has been widely used in robotic manipulator control for various purposes,in almost all cases, the analysis or design is based on linearized models or using linear system techniques.Since a multilink robotic manipulator is a highly nonlinear and coupled system,the validity of using linear analysis and synthesis techniques may be doubtful.Many important properties of existing DO’s have not been established, e.g.,unbiased estimation or even global stability.There are, however,some recent results using nonlinear disturbance ob-servers(NDO’s).A variable structure DO has been proposed [10]and a nonlinear observer for a special kind of friction,i.e., Coulomb friction,has been proposed by Friedland and Park [11].This nonlinear observer is designed based on the model of Coulomb friction,and the global convergence ability has been shown.It has been further modified and implemented on robotic manipulators by Tafazoli et al.[12].However,a specific model of friction will not be used in this paper,and the whole design is based on the DO concept.That is,similar to other unknown torques,the friction is considered as a disturbance on the control torque.It should be stressed that the DO rather than a velocity ob-server of a manipulator is considered in this paper.A velocity observer has been considered by many authors.Bona and Indri have compared and implemented several linear and nonlinear velocity observers on a robotic manipulator[13].0278–0046/00$10.00©2000IEEEAn NDO for multilink robotic manipulators will be presented in this paper.By carefully selecting the observer gain function,it will be shown that global convergence is guaranteed.This result is based on Lyapunov theory.II.P ROBLEM F ORMULATION AND A B ASIC O BSERVER A.Problem FormulationFor the sake of simplicity,a two-link robotic manipulator is considered in this paper.The main idea is readily extended to the more general case.The model of a two-link robotic manipulator can be representedbyis either the torque orforce.has different meaningsin different observer applications.For example,it can be fric-tion in friction compensation,reaction torque or force in forcecontrol,and unmodeled dynamics in independent joint control.Since a general observer will be derived in this paper,all of themare considered as“disturbances.”When the first-order dynamicsof dc motors are included in the abovemodel,is the disturbancevoltage in this case.The objective of this paper is to design an observer suchthat the estimation yielded by the observer exponentiallyapproaches thedisturbance,,and(2)a DO is proposedas,it is reasonable to supposethat(4)which implies that the disturbance varies slowly relative to theobserver dynamics.However,it will be illustrated by simulationand experiment that the observer developed in this paper canalso track some fast time-varying disturbances.Define the observererror(6)That is,the observer error is governedby.III.NDOThe acceleration signal is not available in many robotic ma-nipulators,and it is also difficult to construct the accelerationsignal from the velocity signal by differentiation due to mea-surement noise.However,although the observer(3)is not prac-tical to implement,it provides a basis for the further nonlinearobserver design.A.Modified ObserverDefine an auxiliary variablevector(12)and(14)The estimation approaches thedisturbance(15)where are inertial parameters,which dependon the masses of the links,motors and tip load,and the lengthsof the links.Theorem:For the two-link robotic manipulator(1),when thefunction(16)and(17)where denotes the maximum velocity of the second link,then the observer(12)and(13)is globally asymptotically stable.Proof:Since(19)since and and,therefore,invertible.From(15),(20)where,a Lyapunov func-tion candidate for the observer(12)and(13)can be chosenas(23)Differentiating the Lyapunov function with respect totimeandif(25)Thatis,(26)Since)is then globally asymptotically stable.From the Theorem,the stability of the observer depends onthe maximum velocity of the second link and other physicalparameters.By choosing the designparameteris givenby(28)Let.It then follows from(24)that,the desired exponential conver-gence rate can be achieved.IV.S IMULATION AND E XPERIMENTAL R ESULTSThe proposed NDO is tested in this section.As stated in Sec-tion I,the NDO can be used in robotic manipulators for variouspurposes.In what follows,the NDO is designed as a frictionobserver.That is,the NDO is used to estimate the friction fora two-link robotic manipulator.The reason for designing a fric-tion observer here is that friction varies rapidly,even discontin-uously.It is a challenging task in observer design.The simula-tion and experiment are based on a two-link manipulator withFig.1.Structure of the revised friction model.dc motor actuators.The dynamic model of the manipulator in-cluding the first-order dc motor dynamics is governed by(1)and is detailed in[15].A.Friction SimulationThe friction considered is Coulomb and Viscous friction, givenbyNNis given by(30),is asmall positive scalar,and,thefriction.Whenthe velocity is greater than this,the second term in the above ex-pression vanishes and thefrictionis chosenas0.001.The frictions given by these two models are almost in-distinguishable.However,experience has shown that using therevised model greatly improves the computational efficiency forsimulation.B.Simulation ResultsA controller is designed by computed torque control wherethe disturbance is not taken into account.When square-wavecommand references are given for first and second links,respec-tively,the velocity and friction histories are shown in Figs.3and4.It can be seen that the friction varies very rapidly with the ve-locity.A friction observer is designed by the NDO technique de-veloped in this paper.The designparameterFig.4.Second link velocity and friction time histories.Fig.5.First-link friction estimated by the friction observer.C.Experimental ResultsThe proposed NDO is implemented on a two-link robotic ma-nipulator in the laboratory.The experimental results for a com-puted torque controller with and without the NDO are com-pared.The control structure,which combines a computed torque controller with the NDO,is shown in Fig.7,where the effect of the friction is compensated for by the outputs of the NDO viafeedforward.With the NDO,the parameterFig.9.Experimental results with DO:estimatedfriction.Fig.10.Experimental results with DO:velocity.Fig.11.Experimental results with DO:motor voltages.V .C ONCLUSIONThis paper has presented a procedure for the design of an NDO for robotic manipulators.Following the procedure presented in this paper,a condition for convergence was established.The speed of the convergence can be specified by the design parameters.The proposed observer was tested by simulation and experiment.Even though the theory is developed for constant disturbances,it was shown that,for a rapid time-varying signal like friction,the observer exhibits satisfactory performance.By feedforward compensation of the estimated friction yielded by the DO,the performance,in particular,the steady-state performance,was significantly improved.The NDO proposed in this paper can also be applied in independent joint control,sensorless torque control,and fault diagnosis in robotics.A CKNOWLEDGMENTThe authors greatly appreciate the comments and discussion by Dr.J.J.Gribble pertaining to the earlier version of this paper.R EFERENCES[1]K.S.Eom,I.H.Suh,and W.K.Chung,“Disturbance observer basedpath tracking control of robot manipulator considering torque satura-tion,”in Proc.Int.Advanced Robot.Conf.,1997,pp.651–657.[2] B.K.Kim,W.K.Chung,and Y .Youm,“Robust learning control forrobot manipulator based on disturbance observers,”in Proc.IEEE Ind.Electron.Conf.,1996,pp.1276–1282.[3]H.Olsson,K.J.Åström,C.C.de Wit,M.Gafvert,and P.Lischinsky,“Friction models and friction compensation,”Eur.J.Control ,vol.4,no.3,pp.176–195,1998.[4]G.Zhang and J.Furusho,“Control 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M.Sc.and Ph.D.degrees from Northeast University,Shengyang,China,in1989and1991,respectively.From1991to1997,he was a Lecturer in the De-partment of Automatic Control,Nanjing Universityof Aeronautics and Astronautics.He then held a re-search position in the Centre for Systems and Con-trol,Department of Mechanical Engineering,Univer-sity of Glasgow,Glasgow,U.K.He is currently a Lec-turer at the Centre for Systems and Control,Depart-ment of Electronics and Electrical Engineering,Uni-versity of Glasgow.His research interests include robust control,nonlinear con-trol and their application in mechatronics,and aerospaceengineering.Donald J.Ballance(M’91)received the D.Phil.de-gree in control engineering from the University ofOxford,Oxford,U.K.,in1989.Since then,he has been at the Centre for Systemsand Control,Department of Mechanical Engi-neering,University of Glasgow,Glasgow,U.K.,initially as a Research Assistant and currently asa Senior Lecturer.His research interests includemodeling and analysis of systems using bond graphs,quantitative feedback theory and the effect of pa-rameter uncertainty on control system performance,nonlinear control,and the practical application of thesetechniques.Peter J.Gawthrop(M’82–SM’94)was born inSeascale,Cumberland,U.K.,in1952.He receivedthe B.A.(first class honors),D.Phil.and M.A.de-grees in engineering science from Oxford University,Oxford,U.K.,in1973,1977,and1979,respectively.Following a period as a Research Assistant withthe Department of Engineering Science,Oxford Uni-versity,he became a W.W.Spooner Research Fellowat the New College,Oxford.He then moved to theUniversity of Sussex,initially as a Lecturer,and thenas a Reader in control engineering.Since1987,he hasheld the Wylie Chair of Control Engineering in the Department of MechanicalEngineering,Glasgow University,Glasgow,U.K.He was involved in foundingthe Centre for Systems and Control,which is a cross-departmental researchgrouping at Glasgow University.His research interests include self-tuning con-trol,continuous-time system identification,and system modeling,particularlyusing bond graphs in the context of partially known systems.He is also inter-ested in applying control techniques to a number of areas,including process con-trol,robotics,aerospace systems,and anaesthesia.He has authored and co-au-thored approximately120conference and journal papers and three books inthese areas.He was an associate editor of Automatica and an honorary editorof the Proceeding of the IEE,and serves on the editorial boards of a numberof journals,including the IMechE Journal of Systems and Control,Journal ofProcess Control,IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information,theInternational Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal processing,and the Euro-pean Journal of Control.Dr.Gawthrop was the recipient of the1994Honeywell International Medalpresented by the Institute of Measurement andControlJohn O’Reilly(M’82–SM’00)received the B.Sc.,Ph.D.,and D.Sc.degrees in engineering fromQueen’s University,Belfast,Belfast,NorthernIreland,in1972,1976,and1985,respectively.He is currently a Professor of control engineeringat the Centre for Systems and Control,Departmentof Electronics and Electrical Engineering,Universityof Glasgow,Glasgow,U.K.He is currently a VisitingErskine Fellow in the Department of Electrical andElectronic Engineering,University of Canterbury,Canterbury,New Zealand.His main research inter-ests are centered on integrated and nonlinear control,with particular applicationto aerospace and deregulated power systems.He is also a Consultant Editorfor the International Journal of Control.Dr.O’Reilly was the recipient of a U.K.Royal Academy of Engineering Fore-sight Award.。

外文原文Introduction to Industrial RobotsIndustrial robets became a reality in the early 1960’s when Joseph Engelberger and George Devol teamed up to form a robotics company they called “Unimation”.Engelberger and Devol were not the first to dream of machines that could perform the unskilled, repetitive jobs in manufacturing. The first use of the word “robots” was by the Czechoslovakian philosopher and playwright Karel Capek in his play R.U.R.(Rossum’s Universal Robot). The word “robot” in Czech means “worker” or “slave.” The play was written in 1922.In Capek’s play , Rossum and his son discover the chemical formula for artificial protoplasm. Protoplasm forms the very basis of life.With their compound,Rossum and his son set out to make a robot.Rossum and his son spend 20 years forming the protoplasm into a robot. After 20 years the Rossums look at what they have created and say, “It’s absurd to spend twenty years making a man if we can’t make him quicker than nature, you might as w ell shut up shop.”The young Rossum goes back to work eliminating organs he considers unnecessary for the ideal worker. The young Rossum says, “A man is something that feels happy , plays piano ,likes going for a walk, and in fact wants to do a whole lot of things that are unnecessary … but a working machine must not play piano, must not feel happy, must not do a whole lot of other things. Everything that doesn’t contribute directly to the progress of work should be eliminated.”A half century later, engi neers began building Rossum’s robot, not out of artificial protoplasm, but of silicon, hydraulics, pneumatics, and electric motors. Robots that were dreamed of by Capek in 1922, that work but do not feel, that perform unhuman or subhuman, jobs in manufacturing plants, are available and are in operation around the world.The modern robot lacks feeling and emotions just as Rossum’s son thought it should. It can only respond to simple “yes/no” questions. The moderrn robot is normally bolted to the floor. It has one arm and one hand. It is deaf, blind, and dumb. In spite of all of these handicaps, the modern robot performs its assigned task hour after hour without boredom or complaint.A robot is not simply another automated machine. Automation began during the industrial revolution with machines that performed jobs that formerly had been done by human workers. Such a machine, however , can do only the specific job for which it was designed, whereas a robot can perform a variety of jobs.A robot must have an arm. The arm must be able to duplicate the movements of a human worker in loading and unloading other automated machines, spraying paint, welding, and performing hundreds of other jobs that cannot be easily done with conventional automated machines.DEFINITION OF A ROBOTThe Robot Industries Association(RIA) has published a definition for robots in an attempt to clarify which machines are simply automated machines and which machines are truly robots. The RIA definition is as follows:“A robot is a reprogrammabl e multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks.”This definition, which is more extensive than the one in the RIA glossary at the end of this book, is an excellent definition of a robot. We will look at this definition, one phrase at a time, so as to understand which machines are in fact robots and which machines are little more than specialized automation.First, a robot is a “reprogrammable multifunctional manipulator.” In this phrase RIA tells us that a robot can be taught (“reprogrammed”) to do more than one job by changing the informaion stored in its memory. A robot can be reprogrammed to load and unload machines, weld, and do ma ny other jobs (“multifunctional”). A robot is a“manipulator”. A manipulator is an arm( or hand ) that can pick up or move things. At this point we know that a robot is an arm that can be taught to do different jobs.The definition goes on to say that a ro bot is “designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices.” Material includes wood,steel, plastic, cardboard… anything that is used in the manufacture of a product.A robot can also handle parts that have been manufactured. For example, a robot can load a piece of steel into an automatic lathe and unload a finished part out of the lathe.In addition to handling material and parts, a robot can be fitted with tools such as grinders, buffers, screwdrivers, and welding torches to perform useful work.Robots can also be fitted with specialized instruments or devices to do special jobs in a manufacturing plant. Robots can be fitted with television cameras for inspection of parts or products. They can be fitted with lasers to accurately mearure the size of parts being manufactured.The RIA definition closes with the phrase,”…through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks.” This phrase emphasizes the fact that a robot can do many different jobs in a manufacturing plant. The variety of jobs that a robot can do is limited only by the creativity of the application engineer.JOBS FOR ROBOTSJobs performed by robots can be divided into two major categories:hazardous jobs and repetitive jobs.Hazardous JobsMany applications of robots are in jobs that are hazardous to humans. Such jobs may be considered hazardous because of toxic fumes, the weight of the material being handled, the temperature of the material being handled, the danger of working near rotating or press machinery, or environments containing high levels of radiation. Repetitive JobsIn addition to taking over hazardous jobs, robots are well suited to doingextremely repetitive jobs that must be done in manufacturing plants.many jobs in manufacturing plants require a person to act more like a machine than like a human. The job may be to pick a piece up from here and place it there. The same job is done hundreds of times each day. The job requires little or no judgment and little or no skill. This is not said as a criticism of the person who does the job , but is intended simply to point out that many of these jobs exist in industry and must be done to complete the manufacture of products. A robot can be placed at such a work station and can perform the job admirably without complaining or experiencing the fatigue and boredom normally associated with such a job.Although robots eliminate some jobs in industry, they normally eliminate jobs that humans should never have been asked to do. Machines should perform as machines doing machine jobs, and humans should be placed in jobs that require the use of their ability,creativity, and special skills.POTENTIAL FOR INCREASED PRODUCTIVITYIn addition to removing people from jobs they should not have been placed in, robots offer companies the opportunity of achieving increased productivity. When robots are placed in repetitive jobs they continue to operate at their programmed pace without fatigue. Robots do not take either scheduled or unscheduled breaks from the job. The increase in productivity can result in at least 25% more good parts being produced in an eight-hour shift. This increase in productivity increases the company's profits, which can be reinvested in additional plants and equipment. This increase in productivity results in more jobs in other departments in the plant. With more parts being produced, additional people are needed to deliver the raw materials to the plant, to complete the assembly of the finished products, to sell the finished products, and to deliver the products to their destinations.ROBOT SPEEDAlthough robots increase productivity in a manufacturing plant, they are notexceptionally fast. At present, robots normally operate at or near the speed of a human operator. Every major move of a robot normally takes approximately one second. For a robot to pick up a piece of steel from a conveyor and load it into a lathe may require ten different moves taking as much as ten seconds. A human operator can do the same job in the same amount of time . The increase in productivity is a result of the consistency of operation. As the human operator repeats the same job over and over during the workday, he or she begins to slow down. The robot continues to operate at its programmed speed and therefore completes more parts during the workday.Custom-built automated machines can be built to do the same jobs that robots do. An automated machine can do the same loading operation in less than half the time required by a robot or a human operator. The problem with designing a special machine is that such a machine can perform only the specific job for which it was built. If any change is made in the job, the machine must be completely rebuilt, or the machine must be scrapped and a new machine designed and built. A robot, on the other hand, could be reprogrammed and could start doing the new job the same day.Custom-built automated machines still have their place in industry. If a company knows that a job will not change for many years, the faster custom-built machine is still a good choice.Other jobs in factories cannot be done easily with custom-built machinery. For these applications a robot may be a good choice. An example of such an application is spray painting. One company made cabinets for the electronics industry. They made cabinets of many different sizes, all of which needed painting. It was determined that it was not economical for the company to build special spray painting machines for each of the different sizes of enclosures that were being built. Until robots were developed, the company had no choice but to spray the various enclosures by hand.Spray painting is a hazardous job , because the fumes from many paints are both toxic and explosive. A robot is now doing the job of spraying paint on the enclosures.A robot has been “taught” to spray all the different sizes of enclosures that the company builds. In addition, the robot can operate in the toxic environment of the spray booth without any concern for the long-term effect the fumes might have on aperson working in the booth.FLEXIBLE AUTOMATIONRobots have another advantage: they can be taught to do different jobs in the manufacturing plant. If a robot was originally purchased to load and unload a punch press and the job is no longer needed due to a change in product design, the robot can be moved to another job in the plant. For example, the robot could be moved to the end of the assembly operation and be used to unload the finished enclosures from a conveyor and load them onto a pallet for shipment.ACCURACY AND REPEATABILITYOne very important characteristic of any robot is the accuracy with which it can perform its task. When the robot is programmed to perform a specific task, it is led to specific points and programmed to remember the locations of those points. After programming has been completed, the robot is switched to “run” and the program is executed. Unfortunately, the robot will not go to the exact location of any programmed point. For example, the robot may miss the exact point by 0.025 in. If 0.025 in. is the greatest error by which the robot misses any point- during the first execution of the program, the robot is said to have an accuracy of 0.025 in.In addition to accuracy , we are also concerned with the robot’s repeatability. The repeatability of a robot is a measure of how closely it returns to its programmed points every time the program is executed. Say , for example, that the robot misses a programmed point by 0.025 in. the first time the program is executed and that, during the next execution of the program, the robot misses the point it reached during the previous cycle by 0.010 in. Although the robot is a total of 0.035 in. from the original programmed point, its accuracy is 0.025 in. and its repeatability is 0.010 in.THE MAJOR PARTS OF A ROBOTThe major parts of a robot are the manipulator, the power supply, and the controller.The manipulator is used to pick up material, parts, or special tools used in manufacturing. The power supply suppplies the power to move the manipulator. The controller controls the power supply so that the manipulator can be taught to perform its task.外文翻译工业机器人的介绍20世纪60年代当约瑟夫和乔治合作创立了名为Unimation的机器公司，工业机器人便成为了一个事实。