Industrial Robots (IR) are currently employed in several production areas as they enable flexible automation and high productivity on a wide range of operations. The IR low positioning performance, however, has limited their use in high precision applications, namely where positioning errors assume importance for the process and directly affect the quality of the final products. Common approaches to increase the IR accuracy rely on empirical relations which are valid for a single IR model. Also, existing works show no uniformity regarding the experimental procedures followed during the IR performance assessment and identification phases. With the aim to overcome these restrictions and further extend the IR usability, this paper presents a general method for the evaluation of IR pose and path accuracy, primarily focusing on instrumentation and testing procedures. After a detailed description of the experimental campaign carried out on a KUKA KR210 R2700 Prime robot under different operating conditions (speed, payload and temperature state), a novel online compensation approach is presented and validated. The position corrections are processed with an industrial PC by means of a purposely developed application which receives as input the position feedback from a laser tracker. Experiments conducted on straight paths confirmed the validity of the proposed approach, which allows remarkable reductions (in the order of 90%) of the orthogonal deviations and in-line errors during the robot movements.

Ferrarini, S., Bilancia, P., Raffaeli, R., Peruzzini, M., Pellicciari, M. (2024). A method for the assessment and compensation of positioning errors in industrial robots. ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING, 85(102622), 1-14 [10.1016/j.rcim.2023.102622].

A method for the assessment and compensation of positioning errors in industrial robots

Peruzzini, Margherita;
2024

Abstract

Industrial Robots (IR) are currently employed in several production areas as they enable flexible automation and high productivity on a wide range of operations. The IR low positioning performance, however, has limited their use in high precision applications, namely where positioning errors assume importance for the process and directly affect the quality of the final products. Common approaches to increase the IR accuracy rely on empirical relations which are valid for a single IR model. Also, existing works show no uniformity regarding the experimental procedures followed during the IR performance assessment and identification phases. With the aim to overcome these restrictions and further extend the IR usability, this paper presents a general method for the evaluation of IR pose and path accuracy, primarily focusing on instrumentation and testing procedures. After a detailed description of the experimental campaign carried out on a KUKA KR210 R2700 Prime robot under different operating conditions (speed, payload and temperature state), a novel online compensation approach is presented and validated. The position corrections are processed with an industrial PC by means of a purposely developed application which receives as input the position feedback from a laser tracker. Experiments conducted on straight paths confirmed the validity of the proposed approach, which allows remarkable reductions (in the order of 90%) of the orthogonal deviations and in-line errors during the robot movements.
2024
Ferrarini, S., Bilancia, P., Raffaeli, R., Peruzzini, M., Pellicciari, M. (2024). A method for the assessment and compensation of positioning errors in industrial robots. ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING, 85(102622), 1-14 [10.1016/j.rcim.2023.102622].
Ferrarini, Sergio; Bilancia, Pietro; Raffaeli, Roberto; Peruzzini, Margherita; Pellicciari, Marcello
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