Broadly speaking, robots include all machines that simulate human behavior or thoughts as well as those that simulate other living beings, such as machine dogs and machine cats. At present, intelligent robots have become one of the world's research hotspots and an important symbol of a country's industrialization level. Compared to before robotics in the eyes of people too science fiction, unrealistic. But with the continuous development of science and technology this view is changing, today, robots play an increasingly important role in our daily lives. They can help us vacuum our homes, help surgeons operate more accurately, help law enforcement "sniff out" suspicious packages, and work on the factory floor - they can help automotive, electronics, and industrial manufacturing companies perform a variety of tasks. The following industrial mining network editor and you into the field of robotics to explore the sensor in the development of robotics research and development process plays a role in how.
In 1961, the United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory to a contact sensor equipped with a remote control manipulator slave part of a computer linked together, so that the formation of the robot can be based on the tactile sense of deciding the state of the object. Subsequently, the research work of computer image processing and object recognition using TV cameras as inputs also achieved results one after another. 1968, J. McCarthy and others from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the U.S. researched the novel topic - the development of a computer system with hands, eyes and ears. Thus, the research image of intelligent robots gradually fleshed out.
Since the 1970s, the robotics industry has flourished and robotics has developed into a specialized discipline. Industrial robots first began to be applied on a large scale in the assembly line production of the automobile manufacturing industry, and then developed manufacturing countries such as Japan, Germany and the United States began to use robots in a large number of other industrial production.
It can be said that in the past few decades, the research and application of robotics technology has greatly promoted the industrialization and modernization of mankind, and gradually formed a robotics industry chain, so that the scope of application of robots is also becoming more and more extensive.
Entering the 21st century, with the continuous increase in labor costs and the continuous progress of technology, countries have successively carried out the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and there has been a boom in the replacement of people by robots. At the same time, the development of artificial intelligence is rapidly changing, service robots have also begun to enter the lives of ordinary families.
We all know that robotics technology was first used in the industrial field, but with the development of robotics technology and the enhancement of the needs of various industries, driven by the development of new technologies such as computer technology, network technology, MEMS technology, etc., in recent years, robotics technology is rapidly expanding from the traditional field of industrial manufacturing to the field of medical services, education and entertainment, exploration and surveying, bio-engineering, disaster relief and rescue, etc., and the robotic systems that are adapted to the needs of different fields are being intensively researched and developed. Robotic systems to meet the needs of different fields are being thoroughly researched and developed. At the same time that robots are emerging in industrial production, research on robotics-related technologies has also been intensifying. In this development process, sensor technology is inseparable.
As one of the foundations of information technology, sensors have been integrated into our production and life, whether it is from robots to drones, or from smart phones to smart homes, or the construction of smart cities, can see its figure. Among them, the application of sensors in the robotics industry by the United States and Japan as the main focus of most countries, driven by these advanced countries, the world set off a wave of "smart sensors" development of the boom, and our country is in the current and actively respond to it.
The combination of robotics and sensors can be said to have a very wonderful chemical reaction. Sensors for robots is like a variety of sensory organs for humans, sensors for robots provide vision, force, touch, smell, taste and other five kinds of perceptual capabilities, so that it has a flexible posture, sensitive intelligence, as well as fully automated operations.