Applicability of Hand-Guided Robot for Assembly-Line Work
Author(s) -
Yu Ogura,
Masakazu Fujii,
Kazuyuki Nishijima,
Hiroki Murakami,
Mitsuharu SONEHARA
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of robotics and mechatronics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1883-8049
pISSN - 0915-3942
DOI - 10.20965/jrm.2012.p0547
Subject(s) - robot , process (computing) , line (geometry) , assembly line , computer science , orientation (vector space) , work (physics) , simulation , position (finance) , artificial intelligence , computer vision , engineering , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , finance , economics , operating system
This paper proposes a new hand-guided robot system for assembly-line work targeting instrumental panel installation in the final assembly process at automobile factories. The robot in the system transfers a heavy or large panel module to a nearby target vehicle on a carrier line and helps a worker to assemble it on the moving body, in accordance with the worker’s operation. The system automatically transforms the 3D orientation of the robot to the body on the line so that the worker can assemble only with adjusting the position of the panel. The proposed assist method enables reduce operation time and make assembly tolerance wider. The effectiveness and performance of assembly are confirmed by experiments.
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