Control systems and robotics
An automated process continuously repeats the action that it is designed to carry out. A set of interconnected elements wich allow the automation of a process is called a control system.
Any control system works in a similar way to a human being. That means, we receive information from the outside world thanks to our senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) our brain processes this information and through our muscles or our voice we perform different actions.
The same happens with control systems: they receive information from the environment thanks to different sensors, they process this information in controller boards (like Arduino) and give a response using different actuators.
A robot is an autonomous machine capable of:
- sensing its environment,
- carrying out operations to make decisions
- performing actions in the real world.
So the main elements in every robot, as we learned in programming, will be:
Input:Input: information received by sensorsProcess:Process: to perform operations/ make decisions with this input. This is made by the controller board.Output:Output: response produced by actuators"that can be mechanical, electric, pneumatic....
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