Automated Engine Piston Installation Using Industrial Robots

Author

Zhang, George ; Zhang, Hui ; Wang, Jianjun ; Chen, Heping ; Fuhlbrigge, Tom ; McGillis, Dan ; Barrey, Bruno

Author_Institution

ABB Corp. Res. Center, Windsor

fYear

2007

fDate

5-8 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

3954

Lastpage

3959

Abstract

This paper presents engine piston installation using industrial robots. Because the current manual and hard automation engine piston installation systems are either labour intensive or inflexible and costly, the three-robot and two-robot piston installation systems are developed and investigated. The robotic piston installation process is simulated. A robotic piston stuffing gripper with ring detection is designed to perform the sophisticated stuffing process. Robot force control is used in the cylinder bore finding. The piston stuffing is implemented using a search-finding method based on the force control. The searching method and parameters are discussed. Related future research and development are proposed.

Keywords

engines; force control; grippers; installation; pistons; robotic assembly; automated engine piston installation; cylinder bore finding; force control; industrial robots; ring detection; robotic piston stuffing gripper; search-finding method; stuffing process; Boring; Engine cylinders; Force control; Joining processes; Pistons; Research and development; Robotic assembly; Robotics and automation; Service robots; Torque converters; Industrial robot; engine assembly; force control; gripper design; piston stuffing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Automation, 2007. ICMA 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0828-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0828-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMA.2007.4304207

Filename

4304207