What areas can industrial robots be used?
As a modern scientific and technological crystallization, industrial robots have the main characteristics of high stability, reliability and high precision, and can operate in high-risk environments, which not only reduces the work intensity of staff, but also improves the efficiency and quality of operations, and is the core force to promote the development of the manufacturing industry.
At present, industrial robots can be used in the following fields:
1. Automotive field
Industrial robots related to the automotive field are currently the most automated, and with the increasing demand of the automotive market, people also have higher requirements for the production efficiency and production quality of automobiles.
In the vehicle manufacturing process, industrial robots can now complete a series of automated assembly work such as welding, spraying, handling, gluing, stamping and other automatic assembly work of the vehicle body, liberating manpower and greatly improving production efficiency.
For example, the research team of Shenyang Siasun Robot Co., Ltd. has developed a grinding and polishing robot system, which can be widely used in the processing and repair of various parts such as cockpit transparent parts, molds and blades.
In foreign countries, such as the STICHL chain robot grinding system developed by KUKA Robotics, it can realize the surface grinding and polishing of complex surfaces.
2. Aviation field
In the aviation industry, due to the unstable quality of manual spraying and great harm to the human body, intelligent robots are used instead. For example, the robotic aircraft finishing system developed by Lockheed Martin uses three robots for spraying, and the spraying robot is applied to the surface stealth spraying of the F-35 stealth fighter, which can ensure that more than 95% of the thickness of the coating measurement point meets the tolerance requirements, process stability and good coating quality. In the international aircraft manufacturing industry, the welding technology requirements for aircraft and spacecraft manufacturing are getting higher and higher, and the introduction of industrial welding robots has significantly reduced weld defects.
Secondly, in the large-size workpiece products of aerospace manufacturing, due to its huge weight and size, it is not easy to move, and the use of traditional industrial robots will lead to very high manufacturing and control costs, so mobile industrial robots are a good solution.
3. Military field
National defense as the foundation of the nation, robots also play a role. Because it has the advantages that conventional combatants do not have: high sensitivity, strong load capacity, high endurance, special operations missions can be carried out on special occasions, and most importantly, it can reduce casualties.
4. Medical field
With the rapid development of the robot industry, the development of medical industrial robots has received great attention around the world. With the intensification of the aging of the global population and the development of science and technology, people's requirements for all aspects of life are also increasing, among which the United States has set surgical treatment machines, prosthetic robots, rehabilitation robots, psychological rehabilitation assistance robots, personal care robots, and intelligent health monitoring systems as six major research directions for future development.
5. Deep sea field
With the development and utilization of marine resources, industrial robots are used as the main exploration tools in the deep-sea field for seabed resource exploration and deep-sea cable repair. For example, in the maintenance of deep-water submarine cables, the use of robots instead of divers for maintenance can not only improve work efficiency, ensure personnel safety, but also save nearly half of the economic cost.
6. Furniture field
For different sections of furniture industry production, according to their functions, the types of robots used by industrial robots in furniture production mainly include welding robots, grinding robots, spraying robots, assembly robots, handling robots, AGV robots.
Welding robots are industrial robots engaged in welding operations, and welding robots in the furniture manufacturing industry are generally used in automatic production lines for metal and furniture technical parts. The grinding robot is a type of industrial robot that meets the grinding section of furniture manufacturing, which can meet the processing technology requirements according to the contour shape and surface roughness of the workpiece and realize automatic grinding.
The spraying robot can automatically spray or spray other coatings of industrial robots, which is used to automate the furniture surface decoration process, effectively reduce the impact of paint on the health of operators, and improve spraying efficiency and spraying accuracy.
Furniture assembly robot is a type of industrial robot used to assemble parts or components in the furniture manufacturing process, such as chair assembly, wooden door frame material assembly, etc., which can effectively improve the degree of assembly automation and assembly accuracy.
The handling robot is an automated product that replaces manual handling by applying the robot motion trajectory, and can be used for loading and unloading, connecting each process and sorting parts in each section of furniture.
AGV robot, or "automatic guided transporter", refers to a transport vehicle equipped with electromagnetic or optical automatic guidance devices, capable of driving along the specified guidance path, with safety protection and various transfer functions, which can be used in the furniture manufacturing process and intra-factory logistics transportation, and can improve the efficiency of logistics transportation.
7. Clothing field
Due to the labor-intensive nature of the clothing production industry, as early as 2012, a company in the United States began to develop hand-sewing robots instead of traditional manual sewing. The function of the sewing robot is to accurately needle the fabric, and realize the work of clothing manufacturing and survival under the premise of reducing manpower help. At present, China's research and development of sewing robots can use cameras to observe fabric, and use robotic arms to cut fabrics, which can reduce the error to within O.5mm.