Working in Robotics and Mechatronics? Introduce yourself!

We've had a lot of new joiners to the online community over the past few weeks! A very warm welcome to:

Henry Clark‍ 
Georgios Chliveros‍ 
Brian Nutter‍ 
Roland Clayton‍ 
Shin Lim‍ 
Lei Lei‍ 
Medhi Bally‍ 
Robert Boot-Handford‍ 
Paul Isaac's‍ 
Simon Roberts‍ 
Neal Hewer‍ 
Kevin Campbell‍ 
Khaja Sameeruddin Khan‍ 
Muhammad Ahmad Riaz‍ 
Amol Gulhane‍ 


It would be great to hear a bit more about you all! What sparked your interest in robotics? Are there any advances in robotics which you're looking forward to seeing more of in 2018?

Welcome to our newest members!:

Grzegorz Krupa‍ 
Savvas Pitsillos‍ 
James Cruickshank‍ 
Jonathan Rowen‍ 
Geoffrey Cooke‍ 
Alvaro Vinuesa Casas‍ 


If you haven't yet done so, please introduce yourselves here. We'd love to hear a bit more about you!


What's your background? And what made you join the Robotics community? If there's anything you'd like to see from the community please let us know here.

Thanks for saying hello Jonathan Rowen‍! Welcome to the community  It looks as though collaborative robots are going to play a vital role in industry 4.0 so it'll be really interesting to see the developments there. If you have any industry insights please do share with the community as I'm sure I won't be the only one interested!

Hello,


​I am Jon and have been in engineering for just over 25 years. I am currently a Lead Controls Planner for a car manufacturer in Oxford. I have been involved in a number of conventional robot projects in recent years and am now involved in the steering & implementation of collaborative robots.


​My interest is to see what other are doing in the field, especially colabs.


Regards,


Jon

A warm welcome to the following new joiners:

Ashvinsing Soorjee‍
Teme Jumbo‍ 
KEVIN DOWNES‍ 
Abid Akkaparambil‍ 
Kristian Fogarty‍ 


If you haven't yet done so, please introduce yourself here! We'd love to find out a bit more about you and why you're interested in Robotics. Do you work in the field or just have a fascination with robots? What would you like to see from the Robotics and Mechatronics network? Are there any speakers or hot topics you'd like us to focus on?

Welcome Teme Jumbo‍. Really good to hear more about you. Looks like Paul has given you some great advice so I hope you find the Robotics community useful. If theres anything you'd like to see from us in terms of events, speakers or topics to focus on please do let us know here. :)

<Hello everyone am studying Electrical/Electronics with City and guilds of London, they have a training center in Nigeria. I just rounded up level 3 and studying for level 5. i got wind of robotics while studying level 3 and since then been so facinated about it. i want to interact with experts lately am designing a CNC machine and am still stumbling over some interfacing, so i would like pointers.>


Hi Teme,

As there are several interfaces involved in a CNC machine, I am wondering which ones you are having your stumbling points over.


The CNC machine will typically have a machine bed where the work peice is bolted down to and two, three of four degrees (X/Y/Z/A) of motion (separate motorised axis).

You have interfaces between the motor and the X/Y/Z drive electronics which may be a stepper motor or servo motors with positional feedback. Each of these, because they are connecting to a motor, of some descroiption, will necessitate some power electronics to provide sufficent power to deal with moving masses. The tool motor (usually designated A) is quite often a variable speed motor that has a very high speed of rotation. Quite often these are brushless DC motors.


The other interfaces will be between your CNC machine controller and the indivdual power electronic modules that drive the motor systems. Finally, there is also the necessary interface between your CAD PC and the CNC controller.


Regarding software, most CNC machines (of the milling variety) use G-Codes or M-Codes. These instruct the CNC controller regarding the specifics of motion for teh tip of the tool and have to be translated into motion for each of the axis'. If you are implementing the CNC controller yourself, you should consider using these codes. See <www.cnccookbook.com/.../> for a list of both G-Codes and M-codes.


Of course, there are other ways of implementing a CNC machine. One could use a fixed tool head and a multi-axis robotic arm to move the work peice.


Happy to hold email conversations on the topic.


regards

Paul E. Bennett IEng MIET.

Hello everyone am studying Electrical/Electronics with City and guilds of London, they have a training center in Nigeria. I just rounded up level 3 and studying for level 5. i got wind of robotics while studying level 3 and since then been so facinated about it. i want to interact with experts lately am designing a CNC machine and am still stumbling over some interfacing, so i would like pointers.

Thanks for introducing yourself Mark Youhill and Nicholas Valentine‍. Great to hear more about you both!


Nicholas, glad to see a fellow fan of Simone Giertz on here! :) We'd love to hear some of your topic/event suggestions. We have a discussion post dedicated to this so please join in and add your thoughts there.

We have lots of new joiners to the Robotics & Mechatronics community!


A very warm welcome to:

Mark Youhill‍
Nicholas Valentine‍ 
Jacobus Hendrik Van Schalkwyk‍ 
Dr Pushan Kumar Dutta‍ 
Kok Yau‍ 

‍Stevie Muir‍ 
Karl Williams‍ 
Darren Smith‍ 
Debbie Smith‍ 
NITHIN MOHAN‍ 
Ronald Derrick McLeod‍ 


We'd really like to know a bit more about you. Do you work in the field of robotics or do you just have a keen interest? What is your favourite robot? And what would you like to see from the community?