INTERFACING OF ROBOTS FOR MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION

This article outlines the various stages of operations involved in pick and place operation by the interfacing of 2 robots. The interfacing involves sending the input signals to the second robot from the first robot to perform the task. What coded by the user set of instructions. While performing any robot operation, a robot may interact with other robot in various 4 degrees ranging in between 2 extremes. Now-a-days, various advanced robots are used in industries, but still controlling is done manually or using processors likewise Arduino, microcontroller. Here the programmable logic and Controller is used for controlling and operating robotic arm. All the various problems of this process have been analyzed properly, and have been taken into consideration while programming and designing the pick and place robotic arm. Kinematics have been defined in DMU module of CATIA and Robot joints are simulated to validate the real time movements of physical robots (Igus Robotic control) of vacuum gripper and magnetic gripper igus robots present in the ARC Lab of Mechanical branch, Aditya Institute of Technology And Management. Initially, the whole layout of the manufacturing automation should be placed at correct coordinates i.e., assigning the robots, material handling and storage retrieval system to their respective coordinates. Designing of two different robots’ parts in CATIA V5 software and assembling the parts to form the vacuum and magnetic robots. The kinematics motions of robots are assigned in CATIA V5 software that gives the revolute motions of each joint and had made the simulations of two robots.