Effective Integration of Sensors and Industrial Robots by Means of a Versatile Sensor Control Unit

1992 ◽  
pp. 569-576
Author(s):  
Jürgen Wahrburg
Keyword(s):  
Control Unit ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Sensor Control ◽  
Effective Integration

Time-of-Flight Cameras Enabling Collaborative Robots for Improved Safety in Medical Applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Wendt ◽  
Urban B. Himmelsbach ◽  
Matthias Lai ◽  
Matthias Waßmer
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Wireless Technology ◽  
Collaborative Robots ◽  
Industry Applications ◽  
Human Robot Collaboration

Human-robot collaboration is being used more and more in industry applications and is finding its way into medical applications. Industrial robots that are used for human-robot collaboration, cannot detect obstacles from a distance. This paper introduced the idea of using wireless technology to connect a Time-of-Flight camera to off-the-shelf industrial robots. This way, the robot can detect obstacles up to a distance of five meters. Connecting Time-of-Flight cameras to robots increases the safety in human-robot collaboration by detecting obstacles before a collision. After looking at the state of the art, the authors elaborated the different requirements for such a system. The Time-of-Flight camera from Heptagon is able to work in a range of up to five meters and can connect to the control unit of the robot via a wireless connection.

Time-of-Flight Cameras Enabling Collaborative Robots for Improved Safety in Medical Applications

2020 ◽  
pp. 614-622
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Wendt ◽  
Urban B. Himmelsbach ◽  
Matthias Lai ◽  
Matthias Waßmer
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Wireless Technology ◽  
Collaborative Robots ◽  
Industry Applications ◽  
Human Robot Collaboration

Human-robot collaboration is being used more and more in industry applications and is finding its way into medical applications. Industrial robots that are used for human-robot collaboration, cannot detect obstacles from a distance. This paper introduced the idea of using wireless technology to connect a Time-of-Flight camera to off-the-shelf industrial robots. This way, the robot can detect obstacles up to a distance of five meters. Connecting Time-of-Flight cameras to robots increases the safety in human-robot collaboration by detecting obstacles before a collision. After looking at the state of the art, the authors elaborated the different requirements for such a system. The Time-of-Flight camera from Heptagon is able to work in a range of up to five meters and can connect to the control unit of the robot via a wireless connection.

Fast sensor guidance of industrial robots – experimental results

Robotica ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Klaus Feldmann ◽  
Matthias Wenk ◽  
Josef Zeller
Keyword(s):  
Position Control ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Processing Technologies ◽  
Control Loops ◽  
Sensor Control

For securing and increasing the quality of various material processing technologies a flexible sensor data integration is indispensable. Hence, a powerful and configurable sensor-robot-system was designed and implemented, integrating sensor data into industrial robot controls within the interpolation or the position control clock rate. Different controllers were designed and the system responses of the control loops were simulated and optimized by an efficient control design tool. Experimental results on the achievable path accuracy are presented. Finally, some application for the developed sensor control loops are introduced.

scholarly journals System of technical vision based on active laser triangulation method

2018 ◽  
Vol 239 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Kirill Panov ◽  
Anatoly Borodin
Keyword(s):  
Vision System ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Laser Triangulation ◽  
Electric Locomotive ◽  
Active Laser ◽  
Technical Vision ◽  
Sensor Control ◽  
The University

The number of failures, the percentage of faulty electric locomotives, and the number of unplanned repairs remain high at the enterprises for repair of traction rolling stock of the network of the main-line Russian railways. It was found that the main reasons for this situation are the unsatisfactory quality of current repairs and maintenance, the insufficient level of mechanization and automation of labor-intensive repair processes. The paper considers an existing positive example of the use of robotic equipment in assembly production for the repair of traction rolling stock. The analysis and classification of sensor control devices for industrial robots is performed. A method for controlling the driving devices of the repair equipment is proposed by obtaining a spatial-geometric image of the object’s surface before the beginning of technological processing by the method of active laser triangulation scanning. The principle of the action of three-dimensional scanning is described; a number of equipment with its technical characteristics and software used during the research in the laboratory of the university is listed. The result of the experiment of the proposed method on the model of the truck frame of the electric locomotive is presented. The metrological characteristics of the measurement results are calculated, allowing comparing and assessing the accuracy of the model obtained and the mock-up of the rolling stock truck. Based on the results of these calculations, it can be said with certainty that all errors and deviations of the results from true values lie within the limits of the norm and this technology can be used to design a vision system for robotic equipment.

scholarly journals Design and Experiment of the Automatic Laying System for Rice Seedling Tray

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 679
Author(s):  
Qiaojun Zhou ◽  
Xudong Xia ◽  
Jian Wang ◽  
Yun Zhou ◽  
Jianneng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Control Method ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Longitudinal Direction ◽  
Rice Seedling ◽  
Motor Speed ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Sensor Control ◽  
Cross Coupling Control ◽  
Vertical Spacing

In the process of raising rice seedlings, it is necessary to manually place the seedling trays one by one in the seedling field, which is labor intensive and low in efficiency. In order to solve this problem, according to the actual conditions of the rice seedling field, this paper designs and develops an automatic rice tray laying system, which consists of a gantry truss moving unit, a tray laying trolley unit, a tray laying mechanism unit and a sensor control unit. Through the movement and timing coordination of the cams in the laying mechanism unit, four actions of holding, clamping, laying and restoring are designed to realize the orderly and automatic laying of the stacked seedling trays one by one. In order to meet the agronomic requirements of the horizontal and vertical spacing of seeding trays, especially the efficiency of rice tray laying, the control strategies of the key parts of the system were simulated, selected and optimized. For the longitudinal movement of the gantry truss, the cross-coupling control strategy is adopted to realize the detection and compensation correction of the synchronous position error of the two driving motors. As for the drive motor of the laying trolley and the laying mechanism, the optimized master-slave follow-up control method is adopted to improve the efficiency and accuracy. The results of simulation and field experiment show that when the tray trolley moves on the gantry truss at the speed of 7.5 cm/s, the gantry truss moves at the speed of 35 cm/s in the longitudinal direction, and when the height of the tray laying mechanism is 100 mm from the ground and the motor speed is 375 rpm, the horizontal spacing of the tray can be maintained at 25 ± 5 mm and the vertical spacing at 15 ± 5 mm. The efficiency of tray laying can be increased by 35.7%, up to 380 trays/h, meeting the technical requirements of mechanized field tray laying.

scholarly journals Gait Signal Analysis with Similarity Measure

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanghyuk Lee ◽  
Seungsoo Shin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Similarity Measure ◽  
High Dimensional Data ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Human Gait ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
High Dimensional Data Analysis ◽  
Sensor Control ◽  
Heuristic Technique

Human gait decision was carried out with the help of similarity measure design. Gait signal was selected through hardware implementation including all in one sensor, control unit, and notebook with connector. Each gait signal was considered as high dimensional data. Therefore, high dimensional data analysis was considered via heuristic technique such as the similarity measure. Each human pattern such as walking, sitting, standing, and stepping up was obtained through experiment. By the results of the analysis, we also identified the overlapped and nonoverlapped data relation, and similarity measure analysis was also illustrated, and comparison with conventional similarity measure was also carried out. Hence, nonoverlapped data similarity analysis provided the clue to solve the similarity of high dimensional data. Considered high dimensional data analysis was designed with consideration of neighborhood information. Proposed similarity measure was applied to identify the behavior patterns of different persons, and different behaviours of the same person. Obtained analysis can be extended to organize health monitoring system for specially elderly persons.

scholarly journals Mathematical Models of Main Units and Units of Automated Stabilization Instrument Complex

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 108-121
Author(s):  
O.M. Bezvesilna ◽  
◽  
V.D. Samoylov ◽  
M.V. Ilchenko ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Experimental Testing ◽  
Vertical Channel ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Control Panel ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Position Sensor ◽  
Sensor Control ◽  
Main Components

This work presents the developed mathematical models of the main components and units that are part of the stabilizer: control panel, gyrotachometer GT46, position sensor, control unit, etc. Mathematical models of the armament unit and turret with gearbox and motor are obtained. A mathematical model of analog and digital control path of the horizontal guidance channel is obtained; vertical guidance channel; results of mathematical modeling of control modes: for vertical channel, for horizontal channel. Mathematical models have been developed, which are used in modeling the stabilizer control modes, as well as in the study of changes in the circuit-technical solution of the weapon stabilizer in order to increase its accuracy. The reliability of the obtained results was confirmed by the results of experimental testing.

Possibility of the Process Monitoring during Assembly and Disassembly Components

2014 ◽  
Vol 474 ◽  
pp. 206-211
Author(s):  
Radovan Holubek
Keyword(s):  
Process Monitoring ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Unit System ◽  
Development Area

Nowadays, big expansion and innovation are emerging in all development area of technologies and technological devices. Probably industrial robots and manipulators belong to development too. Industrial robots and manipulators belong to progressive elements of automation. At present industrial robots and manipulators are used for manipulation with various types of objects. The proper using of gripper that creates important task in manipulation in term of object grasp and choose of right type of gripping jaws it is possible to manipulate with object that are fragile and soft. However at this time is very important check of the all time of the process assembly and disassembly in each time. The current information about automation process assembly or disassembly are evaluation to the control unit system.

Research on Multi-Link Dynamic Aggregation Model of Cloud Computing Network

2011 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 214-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Yao Ju
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Load Flow ◽  
Aggregation Model ◽  
Flow Problems ◽  
Flow Monitoring ◽  
Network Bandwidth ◽  
Transmission Link ◽  
Aggregation Control ◽  
Effective Integration

The shortage of transmission link bandwidth limits the application of cloud computing. In this contribution a multilink dynamic aggregation model is suggested. Through effective integration of link flow monitoring units, link aggregation control unit and the gateway, more effective aggregation of transmission multilink and rational utilization of network bandwidth in cloud computing network were realized. In addition, dynamically access load flow problems were solved based on the actual load of different transmission link. The model is costly, stable and highly efficient.

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