The development trend of industrial manipulators

1. Mechanical planning is open to modularization and reconfigurability. For example, the servo motor, reducer, and detection system in the joint module are integrated: the joint module and the connecting rod module are planned by reorganization method; Foreign countries have modular device manipulator products on the market.

2. The industrial manipulator control system is opened to the direction of the open controller according to the PC, which is convenient for standardization and networking; The integration of the equipment, the increasingly sophisticated control cabinets, and the use of modular planning: the reliability, ease of operation and repairability of the system have been greatly improved

3. The beginning of the manipulator is bulging. Since the United States announced the "virtual axis machine tool" in 94, this new type of equipment has become one of the world's research hotspots, and the field of practical application has been explored and explored. China's industrial manipulator from the 80s "Seventh Five-Year" scientific and technological research began, with the support of the state, after the "Seventh Five-Year", "Eighth Five-Year" scientific and technological research, at that time has basically grasped the manipulator manipulator planning technology, control system hardware and software planning technology, kinematics and track planning technology, produced some manipulator key equipment, open painting, arc welding, spot welding, device, handling and other manipulators; During this period, more than 130 sets of painting manipulators have been planned and used on nearly 30 automatic painting production lines (stations) of more than 20 enterprises, and arc welding manipulators have been used in the welding lines of car factories. But on the whole, China's industrial manipulator technology and its engineering application of water steep than foreign countries still have a certain distance, such as: reliability is lower than foreign goods: manipulator application engineering started late, the application field is narrow, and the production line system technology is far from foreign countries; In terms of application planning, China has installed about 200 domestic industrial manipulators, accounting for about 4/10,000 of the world's installed units. The above reasons are mainly not constituted manipulator industry, at that time China's manipulator production is the demand of the user, "a customer, a re-plan", many types of standards, small batches, low degree of generalization of parts, long supply cycle, cost is not low, and quality, reliability is unstable. Therefore, there is an urgent need to deal with the key technologies in the early stage of industrialization, carry out all the plans for commodities, do a good job in serialization, generalization, and modularization, and actively promote the industrialization process. China's intelligent manipulators and special manipulators have also gained a lot of roles with the support of the "863" plan. Among them, the most outstanding is the underwater manipulator, the role of the 6000m underwater cableless manipulator ranks at the world's leading level, and it is also announced that the direct remote control manipulator, the double-arm harmonious control manipulator, the wall climbing manipulator, the pipeline manipulator and other models: the development and application of basic technologies such as manipulator vision, force, touch, and sound have opened a lot of work, and there is a certain foundation for opening. However, the development of multi-sensor information fusion control technology, remote control and some autonomous system remote control manipulators, intelligent device manipulators, and manipulator machinery has just started, and the distance from the leading foreign level is large, and it is necessary to systematically tackle key problems on the basis of the original achievements, so as to form a system supporting useful technologies and commodities, in order to stand in the world's leading troops in the later period of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan".