B.A. Spassky
PhD in Technical Sciences, Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), Head of Department, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-13-25, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
State of the art and prospects of actuators development in robotics are considered. It is shown, that traditional drive systems are inferior to those of living organisms, which are the prototypes for technical devices. Comparative analysis of drive systems based on different physical principles is given. Creation of new types of equipment to be used in space, in the depths of the ocean, and in medicine calls for fundamentally new specifications for drives. It requires innovative mindset to the creation of drive technology. However, it is noted that in the past decades there was no breakthrough innovation in this area. Urgency of fundamental and applied research in the field of fundamentally new drives, especially for soft, flexible and biocompatible dexterous manipulators for cytology, biomedical and minimally invasive surgery is highlighted.
Key words
Robotics, industrial robots, service robots, actuator, servoactuator.
Year 2016 Issue number 1 Consecutive issue number 10 Pages 7-17
UDC identifier: 001.18:621.865-8
