Speakers

Talk Title

Planning and deployment of sensitive robot applications based on integrated torque sensors

ABSTRACT of the TALK

Industrial robots are becoming more widely used in manufacturing tasks. The increasing complexity of production processes and products poses great challenges for the use of robots, so that position-controlled robot systems and sensor systems sometimes reach their limits. The use of force-controlled or sensitive robot systems represents a possible solution to the problem. It reduces the problem of measurement inaccuracies and large tolerances when implementing more complex production tasks and does not require more precise information about the robot environment. Special sensor technology and selected control strategies enable sensitive robot systems to interact with their environment. This interaction with the environment can be implemented in the form of force-controlled applications, which offer a high application potential especially in the industrial environment with regard to the automation of assembly and manufacturing processes. Often, the required external forces and torques are determined computationally based on 1D sensors mounted in each axis of the robot. However, a novel method for the processing of the measured data is a requisite to improve the accuracy of force controlled applications based on a serial robot with integrated sensors.

Keywords: Sensitive robotics, kinematics optimization, intelligent sensors, Human-Robot-Collaboration

BIO

Ali Kanso was born in Lebanon in 1991. He received his PhD in 2021, M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in mechatronics from the Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, in respectively 2015 and 2013. He wrote his master thesis in the industrial field which dealt with non-destructive leak testing. Since 2015, he has been working as a research assistant at the Center for Mechatronics and Automation (ZeMA) gGmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany. Moreover, he is the head of the Robotix Academy since March 2020. His research interests include modeling and calibration of manipulators as well as applied robotics.