Articulated Nimble Adaptable Trunk

Robotics Design Inc. is the leader in advanced technology costs. The ANAT pictured below has 8 articulations of modular . Our patented 1 robotic technology ANAT kinematically hyper-redundant. ANAT robot is the lightest allows the industry to be more competitive and effective for electric drive, zero backlash, arm applications where flexibility and obstacle avoidance are available for a given reach and payload. For instance, critical. Our goal is to provide the user with maximum ANAT offer a 60-inch reach and 40 lb. continuous-duty flexibility in operation. This technology allows the robot to payload, and weigh only 100 lbs. Continuous-duty payload modify its shape according to the environment constraints, represents the maximum load that the system can handle satisfying the need of a wide range of applications for in any arm pose, indefinitely. ANAT satisfy the need of a fixed and mobile robots. The robot may have many arms; wide range of motion and dexterity through simplicity and each arm is formed by a series of identical modules, efficiency of design. all arms work in coordination. ANAT robots are currently in use After many years of R&D, Design is proud to by universities in coordination present the ANAT family. with Robotics Design. Our R&D department works hand in hand Robotics Design sets out to create a revolutionary robot. with universities to develop the But we did not start until we had confirmed for ourselves coming intelligent generation of that conventional robots suffer from complexity, singularity, ANAT. The robot offers a and high cost. We work to provide the most versatile “Snake like” manipulative simple robot in the world reducing the cost, increasing capabilities, with a high degree the reliability, dexterity and of precision, in a compact light- simplifying the programming weight package. The standard task. Let us show you how 8 degrees of freedom manipulator to get the extra edge on your configurations are built from a competitors. ANAT robots family of modular actuators, increase productivity and covering a wide range of torque capabilities. Different types quality, speed-up develop- of configurations can be built from the family of modules. ment, optimize and reduce Robots of up to 32 degrees of freedom can be assembled, all operating under real-time coordination control.

1 U.S. Patent 6,323,615 and Patent Pending technology JAPAN, USA, CANADA

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DEXTERITY MODULAR SERVO ELECTRONICS CONTROL

ANAT robots are no The module incorporates an advanced, fully digital distributed gravity loading design, servo control system, containing a micro controller. All kinematically hyper- necessary servo electronics (communication, data acquisition, redundant, incorporating PWM amplifier, computing, etc.) are co-located in each one to 32 degrees of module. This distributed hardware architecture eliminates freedom for the Yaw the complex arm harness previously required, reduces it to added to one Pitch and a single power supply and one cable to communicate with one Roll for each arm. an external PC or internal DSP. This on-board electronics This results in a struc- system is particularly valuable for mobile vehicle installations, ture, which is modular, expandable and reconfigurable. since the size of the control cabinet is dramatically reduced. This architecture displays the highest level of dexterity Furthermore, this on-board electronics system allows the available today with the maximum of simplicity. This type module to be fully independently controlled. of arm can position and orient an end effector through a combination of a complete cylindrical and spherical work- PC CONTROL AND ANAT SOFTWARE space, with an infinite range of arm poses. In addition, this architecture allows the arm to fold compactly, a feature This PC-based high-level exploitable in operations requiring manipulation through controller operates on a risers or small portholes, as well as minimizing the storage PC interfaced via fight-speed requirements when saved. While manipulators with fewer serial network to the robot. degrees of freedom can be produced using the same stan- The Pentium system runs the dard set of modules, the increase in dexterity of redundant complete real time trajectory manipulators is extremely beneficial in many applications. planning, inverse kinematics and dynamics loops. The MODULAR ARM CONSTRUCTION inverse kinematics problem associated to the obstacle avoidance property of the robot as well as the redundancy ANAT manipulator mechanisms due to the high number of degrees of freedom is solved. are modular. In this patented The ANAT software provides also a full new generation design, each joint module of friendly 2D or 3D user interfaces, to simulate and contains a DC motor component visualize in real-time the robot movement. set to gear reducer with zero backlash, sealed axis bearings, iApplicationsi drive output position transducers, and a controller, all integrated The previously described design becomes evident for into a lightweight aluminum the need of innovative compound serial manipulators and structure. Each self-contained robotic arms for manufacturing, or manipulating tools; joint module is joined to its serpentine in its flexibility, it exceeds human dexterity and adjacent modules by screws. allows accessing confined spaces and tortuous paths. Two adjacent modules can be Scalability from small to large diameters makes it adaptable mechanically decoupled in seconds to many tasks. Modularity increases the fault tolerance of facilitating maintenance or retrofit. ANAT by providing redundant yaw axes. If one of the These modules are grouped together to form a stair-like modules fails, the next modules would be able to provide shape, which handles a substantial load. The internal sufficient mobility to complete the mission. This innovative component holding the actuator of each module can be technology opens the door to many applications such as: replaced, maximizing the applications and the functionality. telerobotics, spray finishing, manipulating, cutting, welding, This modular construction allows for manipulator grinding, as well as prospecting. This same technology allows configuration covering a broad range of sizes, payloads, using the robot as a fixed manipulator or a . and kinematics configurations for different applications, using all standard modules.

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