The first phase of robot manufacturing is design and modeling. We can design and model a robot using CAD tools such as AutoCAD, SOLIDWORKS, and Blender. One of the main purposes of robot modeling is simulation.
The robotic simulation tool can check for critical flaws in the robot's design and can confirm that the robot will work before it goes to the manufacturing phase.
The virtual robot model must have all the characteristics of the real hardware. The shape of a robot may or may not look like the actual robot, but it must be abstract, which has all the physical characteristics of the actual robot.
In this chapter, we are going to discuss the designing of two robots. One is a seven Degrees of Freedom (DOF) manipulator, and the other is a differential drive robot. In the upcoming chapters, we will look at simulation, how to build the...
