Upgrade of A Robot Workstation for Positioning of Measuring Objects on CMM
This work addresses a domain-specific problem for manufacturing or quality control, but it appears incremental as it builds on an existing robot workstation.
The researchers tackled the problem of reducing measuring cycle time on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) by upgrading an existing robot workstation for positioning measuring objects, aiming to improve the measuring accuracy of the robot-CMM system.
In order to decrease the measuring cycle time on the coordinate measuring machine (CMM) a robot workstation for the positioning of measuring objects was created. The application of a simple 5-axis industrial robot enables the positioning of the objects within the working space of CMM and measuring of different surfaces on the same object without human intervention. In this article an upgrade of an existing robot workstation through different design measures is shown. The main goal of this upgrade is to improve the measuring accuracy of the complex robot-CMM system.