Franka Emika Robot Integrated for Electronic Assembly

The Franka Emika Robot System includes the Arm and its Control. The sensitive and agile Arm features 7 DOF with torque sensors at each joint, allowing adjustable stiffness/compliance and advanced torque control. These properties enable it to complete assembly procedures that require extreme motion precision and repeatability. Many industries, including electronics manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace, require high-precision assembly. As part of the move towards Industrie 4.0 highly rigid kinematic structures in special machines are frequently used to ensure precision and accuracy in automation.

Assembly automation can be specified using vision systems and force sensors.

Visual serving allows a robot to rotate or translate one piece to fit it into another, and vision can help a robot pick up a component from a conveyor, reducing or even eliminating the struggle for precise positioning. Franka Emika Robot uses vision and machine learning to do sorting activities that require vision-based judgments. 

Force/Torque-sensing assists part of the assembly procedures such as insertion, by providing information to the robot controller about how well pieces fit together and how much force is being applied. One of the distinguishing safety characteristics of the Franka Emika Robot is this force-sensing technology. It allows it to determine if the robot arm has been subjected to any unusual force while in operation. The force sensors will then reduce or fully stop the operating speed. This makes it safe to use in close proximity to humans. Franka Emika Panda uses strain gauges to measure tensions on all seven of its joints, allowing it to detect even the smallest hits. These force-sensing capabilities make the cobot(collaborative robot) safe to use.

Traditionally, safety fencing is used to isolate traditional industrial robots from human workers which often limits collaboration opportunities. However, the Franka Emika Robot has eliminated the need for safety fences, allowing people and robots to operate side by side in the production sector. Collaborative robots, also known as cobots, enable humans to work closely with robots; working together on tasks such as semiconductor manufacturing, pick and place, packaging, visual and physical testing, and many more. This reduces the physical stress of production tasks on humans while improving accuracy and flexibility.

The Franka Emika Robot can not only put together pieces that are too small or intricate for a human to put together, but it can do so quickly and precisely without getting exhausted or making mistakes. Computers, phones, and other electronic devices, as well as their components, are becoming increasingly compact as technology advances. As a result, assembly robots are essential in the manufacturing of such electronics and other similar devices.