For many years, robots have been manually programmed by specialized technicians. Today, this phenomenon is still common. why? Because, in fact, the robot produced and the installation process will not completely match the design: the manufacturing of each individual robot arm is slightly different; the installation of each end effector (TCP) on the robot is the same as the original design There are some differences; the fixtures on the front of the robot will not be placed exactly where they were designed. For these reasons, modern computer-aided technology that automates the robot programming process (offline programming) or assumes that the exact same robot cell can be replicated, often becomes ineffective. Therefore, manual trimming is still required.

Ward Inspection applied the robot cell calibration system to change all of these: it eliminates any differences encountered in the installation of any robot "actually built" and "standard design". Use advanced mathematical procedures to automatically identify any differences in the robot cells (ie robots, TCPs, and fixtures) through precise measurements, and then compensate for them, so that new and existing production lines can be started, repaired, changed, and updated quickly And precise.

Ø Offline programming: The robot program generated offline by computer simulation can be downloaded to the factory workshop without manual trimming.

Ø Robot cell clone: A robot program created in a special robot cell can be quickly and accurately cloned to any other duplicate robot cell on the factory floor.

Ø Robot cell movement: The entire robot cell can be moved from one location (integrator's factory) to another location (end customer's factory).

Ø Robot maintenance: Perform preventive robot maintenance to recover from collisions between robots and tools with minimal downtime.

Ø Additional tools: mirror the entire robot cell, upload the robot program to the simulation system, update the robot controller with correction motion, etc.

Software features:

1. Calibration:

F Calibrate the robot, TCP and fixtures;

F Calibration base application;

F Calibrate multi-axis positioner or linear trajectory;

F Single-step calibration of the entire robot cell;

F Generate a unique "signature" file for each robot unit

2. Compensation

F Compensate the robot program before or backward;

F Download offline program (compensated by computer simulation software to actual workshop)

F Upload offline program (there is actual workshop compensation to computer simulation system)

F clone (compensation from an actual robot cell to another copy)

F launch (compensation from an actual robot cell to a computer simulation system)

F Move (from one actual workshop to another workshop)

F Maintenance (actual robot cell after compensation for impact or repair)

Other functions: Check the performance module to measure the joint clearance, repeatability and accuracy of the robot.