This paper presents a robotized cell that has been developed to automate the quality control process. The combination of innovative software and hardware helps the operators to efficiently perform quality control on p...
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Modern industrial environments provide a high level of digitalization, enabling great volumes of information to be used for shopfloor monitoring and control purposes. In cases where human operators participate in the ...
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Modern industrial environments provide a high level of digitalization, enabling great volumes of information to be used for shopfloor monitoring and control purposes. In cases where human operators participate in the production process, it is important to support operator’s intervention with Internet of Things (IoT) data and empower process supervision with constant information over Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Towards this end, the proposed framework exploits Augmented Reality (AR) for the provision of an IoT data visualization solution to support KPIs based process supervision in the smart factory environment. The solution utilizes IoT-enabled components, in order to receive dynamic information over the status of sensors and resources spread across the factory shop-floor. The AR application facilitates the need for visualization of information available on the network, on the actual shopfloor components, which offer transparency and ease the supervision of production processes. The development of the AR and cloud API has been based on CSharp and Java, in a reusable framework that can be reused for similar industrial cases. The reconfigurability and reuse of the AR solution is supported by a template configuration, allowing industry practitioners to configure application features and external connections without any additional software development. The solution was validated on a thermoforming process supervision case of a white goods production system. The main goal was to use the AR framework to support operators during the process parameters design phase, and dynamic supervision of the shopfloor environment. It is demonstrated that the proposed system can be used for KPIs monitoring of the production cycles and for empowering process supervision and optimization.
This paper discusses a human robot collaborative application for the automation of NDT inspection processes of large parts. The system includes a movable structure incorporating a cobot with an additional axis for hig...
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This paper discusses a human robot collaborative application for the automation of NDT inspection processes of large parts. The system includes a movable structure incorporating a cobot with an additional axis for higher reachability and a control system that can generate robot scanning trajectories for large surfaces. The preliminary analysis indicates that the system can undertake the monotonous and time-consuming scanning process, allowing the NDT experts to focus on the review and interpretation of scanning results. A case study in the steel production sector is used to evaluate the benefits of such systems.
Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies and materials are more mature than ever;however, industrial AM use is still low. Lack of knowledge among potential users is a key barrier to AM uptake. There is therefore a sig...
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The use of industrial robots for milling processes has been targeted by many industries lately, as they are able to significantly increase the flexibility and lower the production cost over conventional CNC machines. ...
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The use of industrial robots for milling processes has been targeted by many industries lately, as they are able to significantly increase the flexibility and lower the production cost over conventional CNC machines. However, the serial, open kinematic chain of industrial robots leads to a compromised structural stiffness, which in turn affects machining accuracy. Apart from that, the dependency of robot dynamic behavior on its posture requires time and cost intensive simulations and experiments to determine its dynamic behavior over its whole working envelope by using traditional methods. To this end, this work aims to develop an integrated model using the Multi-Body Simulation method for a machining robot, considering the elastic behavior of both the joints and the links. The links are modelled through the Finite Elements Method and the Craig-Bampton method is used to reduce the size of the model and enhance the computational efficiency. Moreover, the simulation is linked with a commercial CAM software to enable a rapid evaluation of the expected deflections over the programmed toolpaths and assist the process planning stage. Finally, a case study on a feed rate scheduling algorithm based on the simulation results is presented to showcase the capabilities of the developed model.
Augmented Reality (AR) applications have seen a rise in industry in the last few years, due to technological advancements in many of its fundamental areas, such as display and sensing technologies. AR has been used as...
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Augmented Reality (AR) applications have seen a rise in industry in the last few years, due to technological advancements in many of its fundamental areas, such as display and sensing technologies. AR has been used as a driver for supporting human operators in fully manual and semi-automated systems, proving its usefulness in areas such as operation and reconfiguration instructions, safety and resource status awareness. This paper presents an AR application that integrates a set of support features based on the latest advances in AR. The application covers all the aforementioned areas of interest, by including digital instructions, malfunction alerts and resource state visualization in one unified framework. An Asset Administration Shell (AAS) framework has been developed for integration and data exchange between the application and the overall industrial network. The developed application has been validated in an industrial-components-manufacturing case study. Nevertheless, its modularity allows for the adaption in other varying industrial sectors as well.
Imbalance in fault samples is a key problem with most rolling bearing datasets in real industrial processes, limiting the performance of fault detection. In addition, existing fault diagnosis methods for rolling beari...
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As market demands are characterized by more customized products with shorter lifecycles, it is obligatory for modern operators to manage recurrent product or manufacturing system changes. In contrary to previous years...
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As market demands are characterized by more customized products with shorter lifecycles, it is obligatory for modern operators to manage recurrent product or manufacturing system changes. In contrary to previous years, adaptation to such changes prerequires memorization of more information, and familiarization with more complex systems and resources in a shorter period of time. This manuscript presents a novel operator training framework based on Augmented Reality (AR) technology. More specifically, intuitive instructions enhanced with machine learning-based physical object detection are used for making steeper learning curves and providing hands-on experience to operators. The implemented application also supports a walkthrough mode where users can get familiarized with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) data streams besides fenceless Human-Robot coexistence in collaborative schemes. An automotive case study is used for evaluating the performance of the training framework through a Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) assembly scenario.
This paper proposes and develops a physics-inspired neural network (PiNN) for learning the parameters of commercially implemented adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems in automotive industry. To emulate the core funct...
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies are constantly increasing in terms of applications and market volume; especially metal AM volume has more than doubled in the last 2 years. However, AM machines still remain ha...
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies are constantly increasing in terms of applications and market volume; especially metal AM volume has more than doubled in the last 2 years. However, AM machines still remain hampered by their limited build volume dimensions and relatively low build rates, poor quality and uncertainty of final part mechanical properties. A key process aspect for the majority of the AM processes is the deposition rate, deposition rate control and the achievable deposition “spot”. The present study is focused on the improvement of the configuration and design of the process head and the delivery system of a DED machine emphasizing on optimum deposition rate through the implementation of a process model and CFD simulations.
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