Applications of advanced industrial robot functions for enhancing robot operation and controls

World Congress on Industrial Automation

July 20-22, 2015 San Francisco, USA

Shaopeng Cheng

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Adv Robot Autom

Abstract :

Industrial robots have been the important elements in today�s automated manufacturing systems. Industrial practices show that among many other factors the robots� accuracy and repeatability are the foundations for making industrial robot applications successful. As new functions and capabilities are embed in the current robot systems and new ways of designing robot applications are adopted by engineers for increasing flexibility and intelligence, the challenges of guaranteeing the robot position accuracy are still facing the designers and users of industrial robot applications. This study addresses the robot design solutions to robot position accuracy problems raised by the new robot program developments technique such as new robot calibration functions, robot offline programming (OLP) software, robot vision data integration, and robot force and torque sensing. To aid the discussion of the developed methods, functions of FANUC LR MATE 200iC robot, FANUC Visloc vision system, FANUC Handling PRO simulation software, and FANUC torque sensor are presented with examples and case studies.