机械工程专业英语翻译整理.docx

53 Industrial RobotsThere are a variety of definitions of the term industrial robot. Depending on the definition used, the number of robot installations worldwide varies widely. Numerous single-purpose machines are used in manufacturing plants that might appear to be robots. These machines can only perform a single function and can not be reprogrammed to perform a different function. Such single-purpose machine is do not fit the definition for industrial robots that is becoming widely accepted.关于工业机器人的定义有很多。采用不同的定义，全世界各地机器人的数量就会发生很大的变化。在制造工厂中使用的许多单用途机器可能会看起来像机器人。这些机器人只有单一的功能，不能通过重新编程的方式去完成不同的工作。这种单一用途的机器人不能满足被人们日益广泛接受的关于工业机器人的定义。An industrial robot is defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator, which may be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications. 国际标准化组织(ISO)对工业机器人的定义为：一种能够自动控制的、可重复编程的多功能操作机，它可以是固定式的，也可以是移动式的，应用于工业自动化领域。 there exist several other definitions too, given by other societies, e.g, by the Robot Institute of America (RIA), the Japan Industrial Robot Association (JIRA), British Robot Association (BRA) , and others. The definition developed by RIA is: A robot is a reprogrammable multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks. 其他的一些协会，例如美国机器人协会( RIA)，日本工业机器人协会(JIRA)、英国机器人协会(BRA)等，都对工业机器人提出了各自的定义。由美国机器人协会提出的定义为： 机器人是一种用于移动材料、零件、工具或者专用装置的，通过可编程序动作来执行多种任务并具有可重复编程能力的多功能操作机。All definitions have two points in common. They all contain the words reprogrammable and multifunctional. It is these two characteristics that separate the true industrial robot from the various single-purpose machines used in modern manufacturing firms. 在所有的这些定义中有两个共同点，即“可重复编程”和“多功能”这两个词，正是这两个特征将真正的机器人与现代制造工厂中使用的各种单一用途的饥器区分开来。 The term reprogrammable implies two things: The robot operates according to a written program, and this program