A reconfigurable robot workcell for quick set-up of assembly processes

Timotej Gašpar; Miha Deniša; Aleš Ude

A reconfigurable robot workcell for quick set-up of assembly processes

Robotics 2020-04-03 v1

Authors: Timotej Gašpar , Miha Deniša , Aleš Ude

Abstract

High volume production has been a prerequisite in order to invest into automation of the manufacturing process for decades. The high cost of setup and the inflexibility of classical automation meant that low batch productions, often present in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), were dismissed as potential end user of automation technologies. In this extended abstract we present the results of the ReconCell project whose objective was to develop a new type of highly reconfigurable robot workcell for fast set-up of automated assembly processes in SMEs. The high degree of reconfigurability was achieved by the developed reconfigurable hardware and the complementary reconfigurable software, while fast set-up was achieved with technologies for fast robot programming.

Keywords

modular robotics

Cite

@article{arxiv.2004.00865,
  title  = {A reconfigurable robot workcell for quick set-up of assembly processes},
  author = {Timotej Gašpar and Miha Deniša and Aleš Ude},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.00865},
  year   = {2020}
}

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