ATI Industrial Automation worked with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) to develop a custom Force/Torque Sensor for Perseverance, the latest Mars 2020 Rover project. JPL is the leading US research entity for robotic exploration of our solar system and manages NASA’s Deep Space Network, the hardest-working telecommunications system on the planet. The Mars 2020 mission […]
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How do sensors make a smart crane safer?
Watching a crane operator elevate and transport a heavy load over a significant distance to a precise location with an articulated crane is always a fascinating and thought-provoking activity. With today’s concerns about job safety, how is safety handled in this process? Safety begins with the skill of the crane operator but today’s sensors and […]
What types of sensors are used in robots? Part 1 of 2
Fully functional human robots, such as those being developed by Boston Dynamics, need numerous sensors to simulate a variety of human and beyond human capabilities. For the human part, the sensors provide the ability to see, hear, touch and move. In general, industrial robots employ sensors for a variety of activities. Some sensors provide environmental […]
Smart Helmet Employs Force Location Sensing
In its Smart Helmet Sensor System, BeBop Sensors claims the first helmet system employing a Force Location Sensor System. The company’s flexible fabric sensors provide high resolution, location-specific impact information. In addition to sensing velocity thresholds, a latticed array of over 40 sensors embedded in the helmet liner, gives it the ability to track the […]
Simplified Development/Implementation of Force Measurements
Force measurements can be rather easily made with Tekscan’s FlexiForce A201 flexible piezoresistive force sensor that is available in three force ranges: low 4.4 N (0 – 1 lb), medium 111 N (0 – 25 lb) and high 445 N (0 – 100 lb). The sensors have a linearity (error) of < ±3% and response […]
