Robot location for minimum cycle time

Robot location for minimum cycle time

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Article ID: iaor1991891
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 17
Issue: 1/4
Start Page Number: 29
End Page Number: 34
Publication Date: Aug 1989
Journal: Engineering Costs and Production Economics
Authors: ,
Keywords: robots
Abstract:

Increasing the productivity of automated manufacturing cells is one of today’s management’s top priorities. The large amounts of capital invested in the ventures have led many researchers to investigate methods to increase the utilization of such systems. In this paper, the authors address the problem of finding the robot location in a manufacturing cell that minimizes the execution time of its assigned tasks. Minimizing the robot cycle time leads to increased productivity in several industrial applications. In the present approach, the robot geometric structure and specifications are considered in developing models using Inverse Kinematics to determine the traveling times between the different tasks of a particular manufacturing cell. Then, an optimization scheme is introduced to find the robot base location that minimizes its cycle time.

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