An easily reconfigurable robotic assembly system

“Plug & Produce” Functions for an Easily Reconfigurable Robotic Assembly Cell

Error Recovery by the Use of Sensory Feedback and Reference Measurements for Robotic Assembly

Industrial robots need instrument or parts transport to do which requires coordinate to show the robot’s instrument, parts and body. When investigating the robot location, we are usually interested in measuring its location relative to a reference coordinate system. In this system it is attempted to make the assemble direction smaller by designing the sensor board and making use of an instrumen...

Hardware design of modular robotic system

In this paper we describe detail of hardware design of novel self-reconfigurable robotic system. We have classified previous studies on self-reconfigurable robotic systems into “lattice type” composed of spatially symmetric modules and “string type” like snake robots. The proposed system has both the advantages of simple operation of self-reconfiguration of the former and motion generation abil...

A Reconfigurable Fixturing System for Robotic Assembly

Traditionally, fixtures have been required to be redesigned and remanufactured for every new product or manufacturing operation. Although this kind of fixturing practice might be economical for mass production, it would cause long lead times and high (fixture) manufacturing costs in small batch production. In today's flexible automation approach to small batch production, reconfigurable fixture...

A Human-Machine Interface to Support Reconfigurable Software Assembly for Virtual Laboratories

Recent developments in reusable and reconfigurable realtime software make it possible to create virtual laboratories wherein applications for a sensor-based control system located at a particular location can be created by assembling software modules designed at other sites, and executed in combination upon a robotic system at yet another site. Ultimately, such systems will lead to the developm...