WIFA ROBOTICS / ACADEMY

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Then build the robot.

Start with a real engineering problem. Work through the equation, try a practical procedure and learn how to check your result.

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4Learning paths

100Worked-example diagrams

PATH 01

Collaborative robots

Plan a cell, size its tools, teach accurate paths and validate the complete application.

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Image processing with robots

Turn pixels into reliable measurements, then connect perception to robot decisions.

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SCARA robots

Understand two-link geometry, build motion profiles and commission a small pick-and-place system.

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Design a robot

Work from measurable requirements through mechanics, electronics, control and validation.

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Start with Design a robot if you are building from scratch. Choose SCARA for hands-on kinematics, Robot vision for camera-guided work, or Collaborative robots for application planning. Examples are educational, not certified designs or claimed hardware test results. Read the learning and safety notes ↗

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Silver collaborative robot holding a machined cylinder between two fixed locating nests on a dark workbench.

Cobots / 01 · 2 min read

Choose a first cobot task with a cycle-time worksheet

Start with a repeatable transfer between two fixed locations, not a complete factory process. Break the task into movements, gripping, inspection and…

Build your understanding.Then build the robot.

Collaborative robots

Image processing with robots

SCARA robots

Design a robot

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Choose a first cobot task with a cycle-time worksheet

Calculate cobot payload including the gripper and adapters

Find the center of gravity of a cobot tool

Check cobot reach before placing the robot base

Estimate wrist bending moment from an offset payload

Size a two-finger gripper for a vertical lift

Estimate vacuum cup holding force for pick-and-place

Understand tool-center-point offset errors

Teach a fixture frame instead of reteaching every point

Measure repeatability without confusing it with accuracy

Build an error budget for a cobot insertion task

Find the bottleneck in a cobot pick-and-place cycle

Predict why short robot moves never reach top speed

Use corner blending without cutting into a fixture

Generate a rectangular tray pattern from one taught origin

Set up a force-limited insertion experiment in simulation

Estimate compliance from a bench force-displacement test

Understand response delay in a robot stopping model

Why robot kinetic energy grows with speed squared

Design a robot–PLC handshake with a bounded timeout

Debounce a part-present sensor without hiding faults

Confirm a gripped part with independent process evidence

Add bounded retries to a cobot process

Measure useful output instead of nominal cobot speed

Plan a cobot pilot acceptance test with honest evidence

Choose camera resolution from the smallest robot feature

Estimate lens focal length for a robot camera

Limit motion blur before training a detector

Measure lighting contrast for a robot inspection

Segment a colored part with an HSV mask

Choose a binary threshold using a saved-image test set

Clean a robot vision mask without erasing small features

Find a part centroid from image moments

Estimate an elongated part’s orientation with PCA

Convert pixels to millimeters on a flat workplane

Collect useful images for camera calibration

Check radial distortion before using image-edge targets

Map image points to a robot table with a homography

Compose camera and robot coordinate transforms correctly

Plan an eye-in-hand calibration dataset

Estimate object pose with a printed fiducial marker

Estimate depth from stereo disparity

Prepare a robot vision dataset without leakage

Evaluate a robot detector with precision and recall

Measure bounding-box overlap with intersection over union

Budget end-to-end latency for vision-guided picking

Compensate conveyor motion using capture timestamps

Filter a noisy vision target without ignoring lag

Propagate pixel uncertainty into robot position error

Build a vision-guided picking acceptance checklist

Understand the four axes of a SCARA robot

Choose SCARA link lengths from the required workspace

Calculate SCARA forward kinematics by hand

Solve two-link SCARA inverse kinematics

Keep a continuous SCARA elbow branch along a path

Build the planar SCARA Jacobian

Recognize SCARA singularities before commanding motion

Convert a desired SCARA tool velocity into joint speeds

Estimate SCARA joint torque from a planar tool force

Apply joint limits to a SCARA workspace map

Convert stepper pulses into SCARA joint angle

Why microstepping is not the same as positioning accuracy

Select a belt reduction for a SCARA joint

Estimate how belt compliance affects SCARA endpoint error

Measure SCARA homing repeatability

Measure backlash by approaching a SCARA target from both sides

Convert lead-screw rotation into SCARA vertical travel

Estimate SCARA vertical-axis lifting torque

Keep SCARA tool yaw constant while the arm moves

Design a trapezoidal velocity profile for a SCARA axis

Use cubic time scaling for a smooth SCARA demonstration

Make a SCARA tool follow a straight Cartesian line

Generate a SCARA circular path with chord-error control

Calibrate SCARA link lengths using independent reference points

Build your understanding.
Then build the robot.