LABVIEW and Epson Robot Training

Yesterday, I was fortunately to be able to attend two training provided by National Instrument (NI) and Epson company at Singapore.

In the NI training workshop, we able to learn LabView, which is stand for Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench. It is a very well-known system-design platform for industry.

LabVIEW is a highly productive development environment for creating custom applications that interact with real-world data or signals in fields such as science and engineering. With the graphical programming provided in the LabView, we can easily design system for different kind of application like motion control, robot navigation, image processing and etc.

We learnt the fundamental knowledge in data acquisition. In just few step, we can easily acquire the temperature and display in GUI with the use of the DAQ card. By using LabView, we can really reduce the development time and fasten the commercialization process.

After this training, we went for another robot training in Epson company.

I always have an impression that Epson is only doing the printer business, but actually they are also doing great in the robot manufacturing business. You can have a look on their website if you are interested, http://robots.epson.com/. 

They provided different kind of robot series that able to fit for different application. Their robots can be used in supply (sorting, aligning and  loading) , assembly, inspection and packing process. Here are the three type of their robot demonstration video.

This is one of the robot demonstration they showed us for the use in supply process using vision system. In this process, the conveyor will transfer the component and the component will be captured by the camera, then the robot will load the part and unload in a set orientation. I like their vision support system, as the calibration for different part detection can be easily configured in just less than five minutes.

Here is their 6 axis robot during the demonstration. With EPSON C3 which have the best in class cycle times, precision and motion range, their robots are leading the industry for compact 6-axis robots.

Besides that, Epson also developed the robot simulator software for the customer to simulate the whole process with the use of the Epson robot. It is very useful, because the customer can simulate the process to improve the process time cycle before applying the real system in their company.

This video show how their robot simulator works.

These workshops really helps me a lot in exploring the potential of my future development! Thank to Eric for this training arrangement!

After the whole day long training, we then have our dinner at Vivo!

I like their slogan, "LIVE with Passion"! =)

The Truth is always Weird

"The truth is always weird", it is a nice phrase which is used by my department leader all the way long doing robot’s mechanism.

Girupakaran, a creative person that I look up to. Thanks to his inspiration and motivation, I learnt a lot in the Robocon team.

 It is true that the "thing" will not be the "thing" that you think.

Most of the times when we talk about the theoretical concept by logical thinking we cannot really predict what are we going to get at the end, unless we carry out it into PRACTICAL.

The truth is always weird, there are a lot of thing that we cannot really predict what we are going to get until the end.
Most of the time, we are limited by the cultural thinking of our own thought.

Everything is possible, just the way how you think.
As there is million kind of ways in doing a task. You are the one who will decide how you complete it.
There is no task that cannot be done; just the way that how you want it to be done.

“… that is impossible!!!”
Sometimes, people are keeping telling themselves that the thing is impossible to be done.
They are actually limiting themselves into a tiny box when they said the words.
Try to think out of the box, as we should believe ourselves that, we can do it better and better.

Just do it before you say:” it is impossible!”
Everything is possible in our life; we should push our limit beyond the limit that we set for ourselves.

And do not scare of the problem that you will face, because you should know that ……….
You can solve it!!!

Here, I would like to thanks all my seniors, especially those who are from the mechanism department giving me the opportunity in exploring in the world of mechanism, it is tough…..but it is really nice when we create something that we want to…

August 20, 2010

SolidWorks 3D CAD Training

Thanks to IME Technology for giving 1 day free Solidwork training.Yesterday, we attended a free workshop organized by the IME Technolog at Johor. It was a great chance for us to improve the cad drawing skill. During the workshop, we able to learn the latest features of 2013 Solidwork, 2D sketching, 3D modeling, simulation and walk-through animation. It was worth to attend the course, as I'm able to learn the technique that commonly used in Solidwork that can greatly improve the design process and quality.

A Passion to a Dream

It has been 4 years I have been in my university and now I’m going to finish my degree of Mechatronics studies in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. I was grateful to have completed my 18 years of education journey and I’m going to graduate soon to explore the new life learning journey.

Since last year, I’m developing a robot which is called Compact Rehabilitation Robot (CR2). It is a robot that can be used to train the upper and lower limb reaching movement of the stroke patients with virtual reality games. Because of the increasing number of stroke patients, it cause the lack of physiotherapist, therefore rehabilitation robot is an effective solution that can be used to reduce the burden of the therapist.

I have a dream, which I want to use my skill and knowledge to help the society. Therefore, I developed this robot for almost one year with 2 great partners (Patrick and Suan Kian) and a dedicated mentor, Dr.Yeong. We really hope this robot can be commercialized and contribute to the society in the future.

But, I realized that medical product needs to go through a long journey to bring it to market, because medical product required more resource to be certified compare with others. That is why most of the people didn’t go for medical product invention, especially in Malaysia.

For me, being the richest man doesn’t matter to me. What matter to me, is how much I can contribute to the society. That’s why I chose this medical invention journey, that can directly help the unfortunate people.

It is a tough and challenges invention route, but I believe “everything is possible, just the matter whether we want to do it or not! “. Therefore, I always strive the best of very moment in my life and never taken down by challenges to make this project a success. With this passion, hopefully one day, we will succeed.

After this, I will continue this project in my master research in UTM and hopefully we are able to make this Dream a REALITY!

Currently, we are joining an invention video competition, if you want to support our passion to this dream, kindly help us to “LIKE” the video and shared this post to your friends.

Please go to this link:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=543102289082308&id=156291974430010
 (Note: Please like our Video entry (MY024) not the facebook page).

The video link in the page will demonstrate the story of our robot!
Enjoy the video and hope to get your vote. Thank you very much!

Learn To Walk Before You Run

Life lesson: Learn to walk before you run

Learnt this lesson when I'm doing my project. I understand that doing thing fast is great, but if we want to do thing fast at the same time we must get the fundamental strong and master the basic skill before we more further and do a more complex thing. 

As you may not know, without these important fundamental element you may open a bigger risk to fall down one day. Therefore, don't rush into doing thing until you really know how to do it. Thanks to my mentor for this great reminder.

Photo during preparation of International Espriex Business Model Competition, Indonesia