Letter of Electrical Engineering in Robotics (Memo)

To: Student name

From: ABC

Date: 5/12/2018

Topic: Electrical Engineering in Robotics

In this professional development exercise, I got to know about the importance of robotics and electrical engineering in it. Additionally, different aspects of robotics such as control movement and weight while some ethical issues were also discussed. Under these, the most important role of electrical engineering was detailed.

Robots have been playing an important role in assisting humans ever since their advent. They have helped humans in exploring deep oceans and space. Furthermore, it has expanded and reached education, manufacturing, food preparation, farming, and even healthcare. Actually, robotics is a wide area that combines computer science, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. In this area, power electronics, automated decision making, control systems, and embedded programming are involved. These are the elements that have to work together to make the robot act, think, and sense.

Deeper into the exercise, I got to know that an electrical engineer has to control various aspects of the robot such as circuit designing according to the calculations, mass of the robot, force of the movement, and torque. All these elements were discussed which gave me the knowledge about the importance of electrical engineering in the field of robotics. Once this little piece of information was conveyed, I was taken to the practical model on which I had to test some values for the arm-movement while I also examined a faulty robot which was unable to function properly.

Through the examination of errors that a fallacious robot was exhibiting, I was told about the ethical risks which are involved with robots. Mainly, I got to know that with the use of robots, there is a risk to the patients in the healthcare sector. Since robots can have defects at any particular time, there is a risk that inefficient results will be produced and there is also a risk concerning the exposure of confidential information.

By participating in this exercise, I got to know about the fact that electrical engineering is very important in the field of robotics and performance of robots depends critically on the engineers. Robots can make various processes very convenient for people and ethical risks can be further decreases by efficient study with the contribution of engineers in the field of robotics. With proper engineering techniques, reliable robotic technology can be developed for assisting public.