5. Robotic Components, Movements
and Articulation
Humans have many more and
some robots have 8, 12, or
even 20 degrees of freedom,
but these 6 are enough for
most basic tasks. As a result,
most jointed-arm robots in use
today have 6 degrees of
freedom
12. 12
Grippers
• Grippers are devices which can be used for holding or gripping an
object.
• They include what you might call mechanical hands and also
anything like hooks, magnets and suction devices which can be
used for holding or gripping.
• Grippers take advantage of point-to-point control (exact path that
the robot takes between what it is picking up and where it is
placing it.
• Grippers should be designed so that it requires the minimum
amount of manoeuvring in order to grip the work piece
14. Single gripper
• Only one grasping
device
• Machine loading
• Machine unloading
Double gripper
• Two gripping devices
• Actuate independently
• Simultaneous Loading /
Unloading
15. Multiple gripper
• Two or More grasping devices.
• May/ May not actuate
independently.
• Holding large-flat objects like
Glass.
Internal gripper
• Grasp the object
on its internal
surface
16. External Gripper
• Grasp the object on its
exterior surface
Mechanical gripper
• Mechanical fingers
actuated by a
mechanism .
• Fingers also called ‘Jaws’.
• Attached or Integrated
part of the mechanism.