Robotic Drives & Physics

• Fulfillment of courses 1 & 2 in the series,
• Or a good knowledge of electricity, analog and digital electronics.

Description:

• In this course we’ll be covering:
• Simple machines (which all come into play in surprising ways you probably haven’t seen before)
• Designing an arm robot
• The toggle mechanism (again, comes into play in a ridiculous number of surprising ways you probably haven’t seen before)
• harmonic drives, cycloidal drives, epicyclic drives, traction drives
• strength of Robotic Drives & Physics & construction challenge
• case study: design challenges of a deep-submarine, remotely operated vehicle
• hydraulics & pneumatics (including building your own)
• air & hydraulic muscles, muscle wire
• servos (speed, pressure, force, position, etc…)
• DC motors, BLDC motors, BLDC servo motors, stepper motors, AC motors, AC servo motors, single and three phase power, electrical generation
• frequency drives, PWM AC signal generation
• regenerative / rheostatic / dynamic braking, looking at electric vehicle design and locomotive design
• counter-force systems you will encounter in industrial robots
• safety around robot systems, in industry and hobby
• robot designs: articulated arm, gantry, spine, collaborative
• case study: combat robots
• With over 45,000 students enrolled in the first two courses in the “Robotics: Learn by building” series,  more than 3,200 five star ratings in the first course alone, students aged 8 to 60+ have enjoyed the course series and its projects.
• No prior knowledge of mechanics, physics or Robotic Drives & Physics is needed.
• You will need a good understanding of electricity & electronics and digital control and some basic math.
• If you have completed course 1 “Electricity and Electronics” and course 2 “Digital Electronics” you have the background you need as we will be using those skills in this course to drive different kinds of electric motors.