Industrial robots integrate multiple advanced technologies and have broad development prospects in the manufacturing field. When manufacturing industrial robots, we should integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines, considering not only industrial needs and advanced computer technology, but also electromechanical and electrical technologies. As people's demands for industrial production continue to increase, traditional industries must integrate advanced network technologies. Therefore, we should strengthen the research and development of industrial robots to improve production efficiency and standardize production. What are the development and applications of industrial robot technology?
Overview of Industrial Robot Technology Development
The concept of industrial robots was proposed in 1930. A few years later, McCarthy magazine published a model of a transport robot consisting of an engine and a mechanical structure capable of transporting goods of a certain weight. In the 1950s, Unity developed the world’s first digitally programmable industrial robot, called the digitally programmable robot. The industrial robot uses hydraulic control and generates programs in the form of teaching and reproduction, with a positioning accuracy of 0.000254 cm, and is used to handle a wide range of machinable parts from GKN, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and other Japanese companies[1].
With the continuous advancement of science and technology, the functions of industrial robots have become increasingly diverse. For example, in 1969, the Stanford Robotic Arm, a 6-axis electric articulated robot developed in 2004, was able to flexibly adjust its motion path. The world's first microprocessor was developed in 1973. In 2008, the IRB6 industrial robot was procured in bulk by Mag Nusson from Sweden for grinding inner-lined elbows. Later, the application of industrial robots expanded to industries such as automotive, metallurgy, and metal construction, replacing manual labor in performing complex operations.
Future Development
With the continuous development of production technology, the efficiency and quality of industrial production have been greatly improved, leading to more stringent requirements for the functions and performance of industrial robots. Early industrial robots struggled to meet the needs of actual industrial production. Against this backdrop, companies have strengthened their research and development of industrial robot technology, focusing on high precision, intelligence, and automation as the future development trends. Industrial robot manufacturing technology, encompassing precision, intelligence, and flexibility, integrates multiple functions and aims to fundamentally improve the quality, production, and cost of industrial robots.
By leveraging artificial intelligence technology to create a professional knowledge base, industrial robots must simulate human thinking patterns to solve problems in industrial production processes, automatically set up and optimize facilities, and meet the needs of precision processing and flexible production.
Fully automated
The production line is equipped with various industrial robots and supporting automated equipment, using industrial robots to replace different manual levers to achieve the goal of fully automated production. At the same time, the high level of intelligence of the industrial robots, along with the innovation and optimization of robot control and communication technologies, transforms the individual control mode into an internet-based collaborative management mode.
Development of industrial robot technology
Based on their mechanical structure, industrial robots can be divided into parallel robots and serial robots. Serial robots employ a series mechanical mechanism controlled by motors and reducers. Rotary couplings serve as control points, and the origins of other axis coordinates are not affected by single-axis operation. Parallel robots, on the other hand, have a mechanical structure consisting of two or more independent kinematic chains connected together. These kinematic chains possess more than two structural degrees of freedom and are controlled in parallel.
On the other hand, solving for the forward position of a serial robot is relatively simple, but solving for the reverse position is relatively difficult; the rotation solution for a parallel robot is simple, but forward movement is difficult.
