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Absolute vs Relative Robots Encoders

Humans have many different senses. The five main senses are touch, hearing, sight, smell and taste. However, one of the most underestimated sense is proprioception. It is declined from touch and consists of knowing where your body and body parts are in terms of spacial orientation. In other words, you know your arm is on your computer mouse right now. Well, robots also need to have this sense to understand where they are in space. To achieve such sense, they need encoders. There are a lot of different declinations to these devices and here's what they are all about.

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on May 11, 2016 7:00 AM. 2 min read time
 
Absolute vs Relative Robots Encoders

Humans have many different senses. The five main senses are touch, hearing, sight, smell and taste. However, one of the most...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on May 11, 2016 7:00 AM
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RoboBusiness 2015 : Object Sensitive Gripping Panel

RoboBusiness 2015 was held a couple of weeks ago. On top of the summary of the event that I published here, here is a summary...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Oct 06, 2015 5:01 PM
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How Does a Parallel Robot Gripper Work?

Choosing a robot gripper can sometimes be confusing. As there are a wide choice of different grippers out there, you really...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Feb 24, 2015 10:53 AM
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How to Design Gripper Fingertips

Designers of robotic grippers are always trying to enhance the gripping performance of their product. Some will increase force...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Jan 12, 2015 11:09 AM
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Top 5 Advantages of Servo-Electric Grippers

In an elecric gripper, or servo-gripper, electric motors control the movement of the jaws using electric input from the robot...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Jul 20, 2014 8:42 AM
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How to Create Fast Cycle Times with the Adaptive Robot Gripper?

One of the advantages of a servo-electric robot gripper is that it allows you to control the position of the fingers. If the...

Nicolas Lauzier
By Nicolas Lauzier
on May 22, 2014 11:35 AM
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How Do Fingers on the 2-Finger 85 Adaptive Gripper Work?

When watching how the 2-Finger Adaptive Robot Gripper works in the following video you might ask yourself; how this Gripper...

Louis-Alexis Demers
By Louis-Alexis Demers
on May 18, 2014 2:24 PM
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Robotiq Electric Grippers now packaged for Universal Robots

Since the release of Universal Robots' UR5 and UR10, we are compelled to admit the great fit of these robots with our 2-Finger...

Guillaume Robert
By Guillaume Robert
on May 10, 2014 10:51 AM
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Servo-Electric Gripper: How Does It Work

This article presents an overview on how a servo-electric gripper works. The image below shows the main components of an ...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Apr 05, 2014 4:46 PM
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