What Is Axis & Axes Movements
What Is Axes? If we look at the meaning of the "axis" from the dictionary we can find the meaning of " an imaginary line through the center of an object, around which the object turns " . In the other hand, in robotic terminology we can explain the the axis; " A direction used to specify the robot motion in a lienar or rotary mode(ISO 8373) ". An axis in robotic represents basically the "degree of freedom"( DOF ). In the industry there are many kind of industrial robots that have different axes configurations (degree of freedom) in the ranges through two axes to fifteen axes robots. It depends on the type of the application. Fig : Cartesian Robots: Two Or Three Sliding Axes Fig : SDA Series 15 Axes Robot[ For Detail ] For example; we have six axes robot, it means that this robot can move in six different ways could be moved. This means a robot can move in X, y and z planes as well as position itself using roll, pitch...