Hello all,
I am new to the world of robotics. Total virgin here so please bare with me. I am hoping to build a robot that can swing a 3 pound small sledge hammer into a solid piece of metal. It would have to have about the same impact as a grown person could create with the same hammer. So the robot would swing, hit the metal, then reposition to swing again (or not if it breaks the build up free the first time). I'd like to make it so I can hit a bunch of times if need be or just once or twice too. I would also like to be able to use a remote switch to activate it. I am looking for some info as to where to start looking for pieces to do this build. And any tips would be great. If you need more info to answer this please ask but like I said I am a newbie so please dumb down you responses so I can reply and not get totally confused right away. Thanks any help will be lots of help.
Is it even possible?
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RickyET -
July 2, 2014 at 11:28 PM -
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forget it, you're way off ... hahahahah
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A suggestion: provide more design specifications if you want useful responses. Offhand, I would have to question the use of a "robot" to do this task. Why not a pile driver type of mechanism so you can take advantage of gravity?
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Ok more info: I work at a rock quarry and I am hoping to use this to strike a feed chute when it plugs. It would have to swing horizontally not vertically I have a space thats about 2'wide and 1'tall to work in. Not enough room for a big vibrator, witch has solved this issues in other places. I run a spread of 3 plants with automation and need to watch the screen to prevent any big issues. When this chute plugs I have to go hit it with a big steal bar till it breaks free. The bar has gotten jammed in the feed pile ànd has also caught some rock and hit me in the side of the head. So I'm trying to figure out something that I can use or make that can be remote activated but still strong enough to hit the chute hard enough to break the bridge-up free. I was also thing of using a hydraulic hammer to fix the problem in the one spot. But I would have about 4-5 other applications for this hammer swing robot where the hydraulic hammer will not work. I hope this gives you a better idea of what I am trying to accomplish.
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More details would help.
Based on your information I still don't think an industrial robot is appropriate because all the inertias and applied torques would presumably require a big honking arm. And I'm not sure this is a good forum for this type of problem (somebody else may weigh in and prove me wrong, though). Perhaps you can (1) contact a local engineering university Mechanical Engineering Department and pitch this as a Senior project idea (2) throw this at another forum like eng-tips.com . Either way, you're likely to get more folks looking at it who will arrive at some very clever solution ideas.
But only if you provide sufficient details, parameters, maybe even sketches.