An industrial robot is a typical mechatronic device with complete functions and independent operation. It has its own controller, drive system, and operating interface, and can be controlled and programmed manually and automatically. It can achieve necessary functions through its control capabilities. Broadly speaking, an industrial robot is a complete system composed of the robot itself and related accessories. What are the components of an industrial robot system, and what are the cable and piping connections?
An industrial robot system can be simply understood to consist of three parts: the robot body, the control cabinet (including the main computer control module, axis computer board, axis servo driver, and servo axis encoder), the SMB measurement board, the I/O board, etc., and the robot teaching device (handheld operator device). Furthermore, the robot controller operating system is shown below:
1. Process-Specific Application Packages: Extension packages for specific production processes, such as arc welding, spraying, and chemical dosing, simplifying programming. RobotWare plugins are understandable because RobotWare allows third-party engineers to develop new features using RobotStudio SDK plugins.
The ABBIRC5 robot system consists of a robot control cabinet, FlexPendant, and industrial robot simulation software (RobotStudio), which comprises one or more robots or other mechanical units. Process equipment and other software options may also be available.
2. Robot body and starter
The robot body, also known as a robotic arm, is an actuator used to perform various operations, including mechanical parts and drive motors, as well as sensors mounted on the mechanical parts. The robot end effector, also known as a tool, is an operating mechanism mounted on the robot's wrist.
3. Understand robot axes, base axes, and tool axes (workpiece positioners).
Robot axis: The axis (main body) of the robot manipulator. It belongs to the robot itself.
Reference axis: The overall motion axis of the robot, such as the walking axis (sliding platform or guide rail).
Tool axis (workpiece change): The axis outside the robot axis and the reference axis refer to the axis that causes the workpiece to rotate or rotate.
4. Electrical control system
Senior controllers:
The Supreme Controller is an add-on device used for controlling and coordinating robot systems. It can be used to control the collaboration between robots, robot and positioner systems, and for centralized control of robots, CNC machine tools, and other electromechanical equipment in automated production lines. It can also be used for robot operation, programming, and debugging. It typically exchanges information with the robot controller via network communication, thus it is essentially an external device to the robot's electrical control system.
We've taken a detailed look at the components of an industrial robot system: robot housing, landing gear, tool axis; control cabinet, robot control cabinet operating system RobotWare, industrial robot simulation software demonstrator RobotStudio; terminal starter, and top controller. Now let's take a look. ABB robot cables connect to the conduit.
The selected control cabinets are the IRC5 Compact control cabinet and the robot housing IBR1200, used to illustrate the connections between ABB robot cables and conduits.
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Perhaps everything about the SMB connection is unclear. Here's an explanation: ABB robots have an SMB board that stores the robot's position. If the control cabinet is not powered (the control cabinet power switch is not on), the SMB battery will provide SMB power from the top of the control cabinet. If there is no power (the control cabinet power switch is not off), the robot will not rotate. Each axis encoder* eventually merges with the robot body on the SMB board, then connects to the controller XS via SMB connection interface 2, and then reads the current position data value from the axis computer in the controller.
What are the components, cables, and piping connections of an industrial robot system? A summary of control cabinet interfaces: XS1 connects to the servo motor power supply cable; XS4 connects to the learning attachment cable; XS2 connects the robot body to the SMB board; XP2200 connects to the external power supply V.
