From June 27th to 30th, ArtiMinds Robotics will be presenting innovative automation solutions from the “Advanced Robotics” sector at Automatica in Munich. The applications were programmed with the in-house software solutions ArtiMinds Robot Programming Suite (RPS) and ArtiMinds Learning & Analytics for Robots (LAR). Thanks to the low-code approach, both tools simplify the programming of sensor-based robot applications and enable the automation of manufacturing tasks that were previously only solvable manually.
This year’s ArtiMinds trade fair appearance at automatica focuses on sensor-based applications from the areas of cable handling, surface processing and mechanical assembly. In Hall B4, Stand 204, ArtiMinds will show its technical expertise as a holistic partner for sensor-adaptive robotics. In addition to the newly developed automation solutions, the focus is on the new features and interfaces of their low-code software solutions ArtiMinds RPS and ArtiMinds LAR.
Thanks to intelligent algorithms, force- and image-controlled processes in particular can be easily and robustly programmed using drag & drop from predefined function blocks. Different applications with robots from Kuka, Fanuc and Universal Robots will be presented to show the range of possible applications in the field of advanced robotics.
The highlight will be a cable handling application with a Kuka robot that demonstrates the robust detection, gripping and joining of freely hanging, limp parts. The solution approach developed by ArtiMinds for this complex 2.5D application is based on a combination of 2D laser scanner, force control and the newly developed interfaces and intelligent function blocks in ArtiMinds RPS. The software first calculates the scan result with the robot movement in order to find the correct pick-up point and then carries out a force-controlled joining operation.
The Fanuc demo shows live teach point optimization in end-of-line testing. The robot inserts a test cable into electronic components under force control and releases it again. The components move back and forth on workpiece carriers on a linear axis. Since the workpiece carriers have different tolerances, the robot automatically optimizes the approach position and cycle time to compensate for the drift.
A model with a cobot from Universal Robots demonstrates how tool paths for components such as shell molds with complex contours can be created automatically. With the CAD2Path feature from ArtiMinds, CAD models can be loaded into the software, paths can be generated from them and then traversed under force control.
As a central data hotspot, the LAR demo aggregates all real-time sensor data from the three applications. The forces and tolerances occurring in the process are automatically analyzed and evaluated and clearly visualized on dashboards together with information such as cycle times, runtime or error messages.
Automatica 2023, Halle B4 – Stand 204