Collaborative, synchronous robots serving machines and cells

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Abstract

Multi-arm, collaborative, synchronous robots are gaining acceptance in industry, because of the cycle time reduction, productivity increase, flexibility and quality gain, distributed control, layout design/simulation, and programming support robot manufacturers and system integrators can offer. On the negative side, when things go wrong such systems are more complex to recover, and maintain, than non-networked and non-distributed controlled individual robots. In this paper, we introduce some of the most important engineering, and technology management principles that collaborate robots and their users and should be kept in mind while developing such systems, and/or planning for such applications.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)213-217
Number of pages5
JournalIndustrial Robot
Volume30
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

Keywords

  • Assembly
  • Machining
  • Robots
  • Welding

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