• DOMINANT TECHNOLOGIES IN “INDUSTRY 4.0”

    SIMULATION AND MOTION CONTROL OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOT

    Industry 4.0, Vol. 2 (2017), Issue 4, pg(s) 169-174

    This research proposes a simulation of a Stäubli TX90 robot based on Simulink Toolbox of Matlab. The goal is to predict the position and trajectory of its end-effector, with high reliability. The simulator takes into consideration loading, deformations, calibrated kinematic parameters, and all eventual sources of disturbance. A comparison between real and simulated data reveals the reliability and the accuracy of the simulator.

  • DOMINANT TECHNOLOGIES IN “INDUSTRY 4.0”

    REACHABILITY PLANNING OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOT IN CONCEPT OF DIGITAL FACTORY

    Industry 4.0, Vol. 2 (2017), Issue 4, pg(s) 165-168

    One of the factors that influence the production and assembly systems based on robotic cooperation is the reachability of the required locations as well as the design of the robotic arm paths without the need for initial testing at a real workplace, which could lead to damage of some parts in the workplace. The resulting robot paths must be collision-free, they cannot correlate with other elements of the automated workplace, they should also follow the set production cycle. The trajectory time described by the industrial robot end effector influences the overall production cycle time. For this reason, it is necessary to create a trajectory which represents the shortest path described by the industrial robot. The design of the end effector path of an industrial robot must in general meet many criteria, either in terms of tact or safety. By simulating multiple path trajectory variants in the digital environment, it is possible to select the ideal trajectory of motion of the industrial robot depending on the layout of individual elements of the production or assembly system and the elimination of collisions. When designing a robotic workstation, the main parameters of the industrial robot are range and load capacity. By implementing CAD data and customer requirements into the digital environment of the selected software, we can verify the data and choose the most appropriate solution. The main benefits of industrial robot application and the use of available software to efficiently design a robotic system include benefits such as shorter production times and associated higher productivity, labor cost savings and wage costs reduction, robots are used in other applications after the end of the production cycle of the original product, thereby achieving savings in investment costs.

  • STUDY OF THE CAPACITY OF A FANUC M430i-A/4FH ROBOT TO PERFORM TECHNOLOGICAL OPERATIONS

    Machines. Technologies. Materials., Vol. 10 (2016), Issue 2, pg(s) 28-30

    A work environment for modelling, simulating and performing various technological operations (milling, drilling, etc.) has been created using hardware developed to include a Fanuc M430i-A/4FH robot and specialised software Roboguide. As a result of the study, guidelines have been developed for the software and hardware improvement of the system in order to enhance its use both for the purposes of training and research.