Mexico, December 24 (EFE) .- Researchers from the UNAM developed a technology package to integrate measurement robots , a genre in that it includes coordinate measuring machines and articulated arms assets and liabilities, as announced José Sánchez Vizcaíno, manager of the group.
In a statement, explained that this is intended to reduce costs of hardware and software for industrial, clinical and artistic , in addition to motivate and convince students that development of own instrumentation is possible and appropriate.
He said the academic group for Precision Engineering and Metrology belongs to Department of Instrumentation and Measurement Center of Applied Sciences and Technological Development (CCADET) of the UNAM.
The project was developed with funds from the Institute of Science and Technology of the Federal District, Today secretariat to develop measurement interfaces with interest in the fields of metal-mechanical, power conversion, transport, medical and artistic.
He mentioned that the hardware and software interfaces developed complement , extend or replace commercial equivalents . It is automated, manual and interactive process operations industrial or interest for a wide geometric spectrum of sizes, positions and shapes.
“For all cases of geometry processing transferable results are generated CAD (computer-aided design), providing security processing and facilitates analysis “, established the expert.
In the market there are packages that range between 60,000 and $ 100,000 (between about 883,000 and one million 471 thousand pesos) , and its licenses and updates vary between eight and twenty thousand dollars a year (between about 118,000 and 294,000 pesos) ; also often have restrictions for users to develop their own applications or include new algorithms, mathematical functions or commands.
Therefore, and since the CCADET has the intellectual capacity of scientists and engineers in training They were given the task of developing own packages. Thus, now have a hardware interface, remote control, and user interface that bind measuring machines with up to four movements or degrees of freedom.
There history of development of physical machines CCADET -today CCADET- UNAM in 1988, with which human bones were digitized.
There are currently mechanical and electronic technology available low-cost that allows developing machines to measure, articulated arms and robots, so this technological subsystem is considered totally approachable on projects that required it.
Emerging technologies in this field are scanners, laser-trackers measurement and image processing, among others, it is estimated that the issue is not exhausted and is an opportunity for the development of Mexican engineering.
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