Daimler Ag

Kuka Systems Gmbh

Willi Klumpp

Matthias Reichenbach

Simon Klumpp

Michael Zuern

Matthias Schreiber

Konrad Wirth

Reinhard Neureiter

Otmar Honsberg

Thomas Rau

Julian Stockschläder

Robert Haman

Michael Zürn

Richard Zunke

Uwe Pfister

Andreas Domke

Kurt Strauss

Alexander Gürtler

Alexander Guertler

Jürgen Ehleiter

Thomas Prager

Michael Schunko

Ralf Kühnemann

Anton Feldmann

Volker Zipter

Christian Eberdt

Alexander GÜRTLER

A method for determining values influencing movement of a robot is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: a) provision of a task to be performed by the robot and a worker; b) provision of a layout of a workstation; c) provision of tool data; d) determination of respective axial movement patterns of the robot on the basis of steps a) to c); e) provision of a worker workspace; f) determination of critical path points of the robot, where a specified movement speed is exceeded by the robot and/or a specified mass of an element to be moved by the robot is exceeded, on the basis of the axial movement patterns and the workspace; g) simulation of respective collisions at the critical path points by a second robot; and h) determination of permissible operating speeds of the robot for each critical path point on the basis of the simulated collisions.

Method for determining values influencing the movement of a robot

A method to operate a production plant having a plurality of work regions in which respective work stations are arranged to carry out at least on respective work step, and having at least one transport system that transports goods to be processed on at least one predetermined path between the work stations, involves selecting the arrangement of the work stations, the work step that is able to be carried out by the respective work station, and the at least one predetermined path according to at least one predetermined criterion that is related to a production requirement, and adapting these due to a change of the at least one criterion.

Adaptive workstation assembly in production processing

A human-robot cooperation (HRC) workstation has a programmable industrial robot () and a manual working area () for a worker () in a region surrounding the industrial robot (). In the HRC workstation (), the working areas of the industrial robot () and the worker () overlap. Contact between the worker () and the industrial robot () is possible. The workstation () is divided into a plurality of different zones () having differently high levels of risk of hazard from the industrial robot () for the worker (). The industrial robot () is suitable for human-robot cooperation.

Workstation

The method is used for automated tightening of a screwed joint (), which is fitted to a component () in advance and contains a screw () and a nut (), using a programmable industrial robot system (). In this case, the invention provides that the industrial robot system () has a first robot () with a screw driving head () and a second robot () with a mating holding head (). In order to tighten the screwed joint () on the component (), the screw driving head () is positioned in a defined screw driving position, and the mating holding head () is positioned in a defined mating holding position in order to produce an interlocking connection, which is suitable for tightening of the screwed joint (), between the mating holding head () and the nut (), as well as between the screw driving head () and the screw (). The screwed joint () on the component () is tightened with a predeterminable fixing torque. The interlocking connections are then disconnected.

Method for tightening a screwed joint on a component in an automated manner, and suitable industrial robot system

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Willi Klumpp