Unified Components and Controls for Robot Kinematics

摘要

With the automotive industry employing 95 percent of the robots in use for industrial purposes, this industry's robotic trends points the way toward future robot designs, which increasingly involves modularization, reduction in the number of assemblies and elimination of proprietary hardware. Robots and handling systems are critical components for factory automation, enabling motion sequences that would otherwise require extensive manual labor, such as automatic equipment assembly, loading and unloading, picking and palletizing. In modern automotive factories, up to 95 percent of "body-in-white" processes — where a car takes shape — are automated, thereby saving labor and materials costs. In a typical welding application, for example, a robot might place 30 welding spots every 60 seconds, thus achieving short cycle times and an extremely high level of repeat accuracy.