Title :
rob@work: Robot assistant in industrial environments
Author :
Helms, E. ; Schraft, R.D. ; Hägele, M.
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Manuf. Eng. & Autom., Germany
Abstract :
In this contribution we present a robot assistant consisting of a mobile platform and a manipulator to support manual workplaces in production environments. We propose a general definition of robot assistants. Two applications for the robot assistant rob@work are described - the assembly of hydraulic pumps and the assistance of manual gas metal arc welding (GMAW). A description of the hardware and software architecture, the man-machine-interface, the task-planner and the path-planning of the robot assistant is given.
Keywords :
assembling; manipulators; robots; welding; assembly; gas metal arc welding; manipulator; manual workplaces; mobile platform; path-planning; production environments; robot assistant; task-planner; Application software; Employment; Hardware; Manipulators; Mobile robots; Production; Robotic assembly; Service robots; Software architecture; Welding;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2002. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7545-9
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2002.1045655
