Flexible, adaptive industrial assembly: driving innovation through competition
Flexible, adaptive industrial assembly: driving innovation through competition
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灵活、适应性强的工业装配：通过竞争推动创新
DOI：
10.1007/s11370-019-00292-9
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
F. Iida
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作者：
Josie Hughes;Kieran Gilday;Luca Scimeca;Soham Garg;F. Iida
机器人竞赛激发了下一代尖端机器人解决方案和创新技术。世界机器人峰会（WRS）工业装配挑战赛提出了一个关键的研究挑战：如何开发自适应工业装配机器人。总体目标是开发出制造新产品或更改产品所需的硬件或软件更改最少的机器人。这将最大限度地减少浪费，并使该行业朝着更加灵活的制造方式迈进；这将为制造业提供令人兴奋的新技术，并支持许多新的商业模式和方法。在本文中，我们提出了一种方法，其中开发了通用抓取器和自适应控制方法来实现这一研究目标。这些方法使皮带传动系统的装配高度灵活和自适应。参加WRS工业装配挑战赛证明了这种方法的能力。我们在装备挑战中获得了第二名，在适应性制造挑战中获得了第二名，并获得了创新奖。
Robotics competitions stimulate the next generation of cutting edge robotics solutions and innovative technologies. The World Robot Summit (WRS) Industrial Assembly challenge posed a key research challenge: how to develop adaptive industrial assembly robots. The overall goal is to develop robots where minimal hardware or software changes are required to manufacture a new or altered product. This will minimise waste and allow the industry to move towards a far more flexible approach to manufacturing; this will provide exciting new technologies for the manufacturing industry and support many new business models and approaches. In this paper, we present an approach where general-purpose grippers and adaptive control approaches have been developed to move towards this research goal. These approaches enable highly flexible and adaptive assembly of a belt drive system. The abilities of this approach were demonstrated by taking part in the WRS Industrial Assembly Challenge. We achieved second place in the kitting challenge and second place in the adaptive manufacturing challenge and were presented with the Innovation Award.