Small and medium-sized craft enterprises are still characterized by production process involving human labour to a large extent. The possibility of a safe interaction of the operator in the collaborative working area of the machine, and the development of an easy-to-program robotic cell, would pave the way to the introduction of automation in such an environment. This paper proposes an application of a commercial platform for collision avoidance, based on Dynamic Road-map algorithms, to execute unstructured industrial tasks involving industrial robots, cobots, and human operators at the same time. An example is presented in a pick-and-place and assembling application, in which the components are feed by a conveyor belt with random order and random flow rate. The adopted platform enhances the possibility to exploit in the same robotic cell both industrial robots and human labour, thus allowing a reduction of costs and more precise applications. Moreover, the possibility to calculate at run-time alternative trajectories to avoid obstacles (both human being and other robot in the cell), avoiding to make the robot temporarily inactive, allows to improve the system productivity.
Application of Realtime Robotics platform to execute unstructured industrial tasks involving industrial robots, cobots, and human operators
Carnevale M.;Giberti H.
2022-01-01
Abstract
Small and medium-sized craft enterprises are still characterized by production process involving human labour to a large extent. The possibility of a safe interaction of the operator in the collaborative working area of the machine, and the development of an easy-to-program robotic cell, would pave the way to the introduction of automation in such an environment. This paper proposes an application of a commercial platform for collision avoidance, based on Dynamic Road-map algorithms, to execute unstructured industrial tasks involving industrial robots, cobots, and human operators at the same time. An example is presented in a pick-and-place and assembling application, in which the components are feed by a conveyor belt with random order and random flow rate. The adopted platform enhances the possibility to exploit in the same robotic cell both industrial robots and human labour, thus allowing a reduction of costs and more precise applications. Moreover, the possibility to calculate at run-time alternative trajectories to avoid obstacles (both human being and other robot in the cell), avoiding to make the robot temporarily inactive, allows to improve the system productivity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
