Accuracy Assessment of Articulated Industrial Robots using the Extended- and the Loaded-Double-Ball-Bar
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Cyber-Physical Production Systems, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology, Germany
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Department of Production Engineering (IIP), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
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Chair of Machine Tools Development and Adaptive Controls, Institute of Mechatronic Engineering TU Dresden, Germany
Submission date: 2022-02-28
Final revision date: 2022-04-22
Acceptance date: 2022-04-24
Online publication date: 2022-05-04
Publication date: 2022-06-28
Corresponding author
Johann August Marwitz
Cyber-Physical Production Systems, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology, Nöthnitzer Str. 44, 01069, Dresden, Germany
Cyber-Physical Production Systems, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology, Nöthnitzer Str. 44, 01069, Dresden, Germany
Journal of Machine Engineering 2022;22(2):80–98
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This research paper outlines the methodology and application of geometric and static accuracy assessment of articulated industrial robots using the Extended-Double-Ball-Bar as well as the Loaded-Double-Ball-Bar. In a first experiment, the EDBB is used to assess the geometric accuracy of a Comau NJ-130 robot. Advanced measuring trajectories are investigated that regard poses, which maximize the error influences of individual robot components. The developed error-sensitive trajectories are validated in experimental studies and compared to the circular trajectories according to ISO-230-4. Next, the Loaded-Double-Ball-Bar is used to assess an ABB IRB6700 manipulator under quasi-static loads of up to 600 Newton using circular testing according to ISO-230-4 and stiffness is identified. Then, the stiffness is used to perform a reverse calculation to identify the kinematic errors on the path deviations. The concept is validated in a case study of quasi-static loaded circular testing using the Loaded-Double-Ball-Bar compared to a Leica-AT960 laser tracker.
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