Modular robot having an adaptable configuration
AssigneeSofermo
InventorsPierre Pardo, Francois C. Pruvot
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Abstract
Robots or industrial automatons comprising each: standard modules assembled like a meccano construction, said modules being adapted to perform the requisite basic functions and comprising a module of translation, a module of rotation of 2 k .pi., a module of rotation of less than 2 k .pi., a member consisting for example of a head having several axes, said standard modules being interconnected by means of arms sawed to the desired length before assembling the component elements of the robots.
Claims10
A modular robot having an adaptable configuration for operation in any coordinate axis system, utilizing self-contained modules each incorporating a pair of relatively driven end components, a motor, a reduction gearing driven by the motor and operatively connected to drive a module and the sucessively connected modules and means for measuring the relative positions of the pair of relatively driven end components of said module, said robot comprising as many of said self-contained modules as there are elementary movements of translation and rotation that can be accomplished by the robot, said modules being interconnectable and arranged and disposed in the coordinate axes system for the application contemplated for said robot, and two successive modules being interconnected by a connecting tube of which the length is subordinate to the application contemplated, each end of said tube being detachably fastened to a respective end component of said two successive modules by means of identical standard fastening means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.