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Introduction To ROBOTICS-Lecture 1: Pantech Prolabs India PVT LTD

The document introduces robotics and defines a robot. It discusses the embodiment, situatedness, and autonomy of robots. It outlines applications of robotics and provides a basic roadmap of the field including engineering, control theory, autonomous control, and learning. The document also gives a brief history of robotics, highlighting early robots like Grey Walter's Tortoise and Shakey.

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Introduction To ROBOTICS-Lecture 1: Pantech Prolabs India PVT LTD

The document introduces robotics and defines a robot. It discusses the embodiment, situatedness, and autonomy of robots. It outlines applications of robotics and provides a basic roadmap of the field including engineering, control theory, autonomous control, and learning. The document also gives a brief history of robotics, highlighting early robots like Grey Walter's Tortoise and Shakey.

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INTRODUCTION TO

ROBOTICS-Lecture 1

Pantech Prolabs India Pvt Ltd


What is robotics?
 Robot: a machine with a physical embodiment that
produces actuation based on its sensory information
 sensing, actuation, control
 A simple robot: a thermostat, 1DOF robot
 Examples :

Raibert hopper ActivMedia Pioneer


Robots, machines, and agents
 Embodiment
 a robot’s embodiment is its medium to interact (sensing and
actuation) with its environment
 embodiment constrains a robot

 Situatedness
 robots are strongly affected by the environment and deal
with its immediate demands directly
 Situated intelligence
 observed behavior resulting from interaction between a robot
and its environment
 cannot be attributed to a single source, model, or rationale

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Robots, machines, and agents
 Autonomy
a robot is a machine with autonomy
 robots are motivated to achieve some goal
 Uncertainty
 an inherent property of the real world
 Physical sensors and actuators provide limited,
noisy, and inaccurate information and force
generation
 The certainty of physical sensors and effectors
cannot be well characterized
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Applications for robotic technology
 Industrial/assembly/inspection
 Search and rescue
 Hazardous operation (demining, defusing, chemical)
 Medical Applications
 Entertainment
 Space and underwater exploration and development
 Assistive/rehabilitation
 Education
 Transportation
 Ecology, geosciences

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Basic roadmap of robotics
 Engineering robotics:
 constructing physical embodiment and physical
dynamics
 mechanical engineering
 Control theory/ Signal processing
 Autonomous control
 Learning/Adaptation

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Basic roadmap of robotics
 Engineering robotics:
 Control theory/ Signal processing
 producing appropriate control signals
 interpreting/processing the world from sensory data
 mechanical and electrical engineering
 Autonomous control
 Learning/Adaptation

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Basic roadmap of robotics
 Engineering robotics:
 Control theory/ Signal processing
 Autonomous control
 programs for producing control signals from
sensory data
 computer science and electrical engineering
 Learning/Adaptation

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Basic roadmap of robotics
 Engineering robotics:
 Control theory/ Signal processing
 Autonomous control
 Learning/Adaptation
 extending the robot’s autonomy beyond what is
explicitly programmed

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History of robotics
 The term “robot” was popularized by Czech
playwright Karel Capek,combining
 “rabota”meaning “obligatory work”
 “robotnik” meaning “serf”
 Traditional notions of robots
 clever mechanical devices or automatons
 Advancement in computation has redefined
these notions

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Grey Walter’s Tortoise
 Acknowledged as the first robot (1953)
 Inspired by cybernetics
 Exhibited emergent behavior from reactive
control

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Shakey
 One of the first AI-inspired robots
 mobile robot with contact and
camera sensors
 Lived in a specially constructed
world
 Shakey name derived from how it
executed it plans

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Other early AI-inspired robots
 HILARE

 Moravec’s CART/Rover

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For more details
 www.pantechsolutions.net
 http://www.slideshare.net/pantechsolutions
 http://www.scribd.com/pantechsolutions
 http://www.youtube.com/pantechsolutions

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