Automated Manufacturing/Robotics The Advanced Manufacturing Department at CSULA houses several robots and automated machines which are used to teach students about this exciting field of automation. The BRAT B810 Robot is one of several robots used in the manufacturing laboratory. The BRAT B810 robot is a four-axis pneumatic arm which is controlled by the B810 - Computer Interface Module which controls all the pneumatic valves and cylinders through the use of its software.

BRAT B810 Robot

Another very interesting Robot found in the Advance Manufacturing Department is the CRS SRS-M1; a seven-axes, continous path robot that uses the CRS Plus proprietary languague known as RAPL (Robotic Automation Programming Language). Rapl is an automation-oriented line-structure languague designed to facilitate the design of application of robot systems.

CRS SRS-M1 Robot	CRS - Work Cell

Below is the Scorbot robot, which has five degrees of freedom and is a point-to-point robot. This electric pick and place robot is operated by a DC servo and closed by means of an encoder. One of its useful purposes is to place parts to be machine in holding devices. The software used by this robot is called Scorbase (version 3.2 programming languague). The Scorbot has been used to feed parts to the Dyna-2400 CNC Milling Machine to remove/place parts before and after machining.

Scorbot Robot

The American Robot (lower right side) is a six-axes (pitch jaw & rotate) robot that is used as a MIG Welding Work Cell in the automated manufacturing lab.

*Scara Robot	American Robot

* The Scara (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot) Robot Arm is used for palletizing.

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