• DocumentCode
    2425443
  • 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
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    399
  • Lastpage
    404
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2002. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Workshop on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7545-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROMAN.2002.1045655
  • Filename
    1045655