The airplane manufacturer Airbus UK has put into good use the advance technology of the Adaptive Robot Control (ARC). Allowing for metrology-assisted production, the Metris Adaptive Control solutions have effectively proven to achieve advancement in terms of time saving and quality driven production process. The metrology enabled into a robotic drilling solution allows for the metrology device to position, verify, and validate during the process. The K-series uses LEDs to monitor the robot, the part, the fixturing, and the drilling, all done in real time monitoring to instantaneously do corrections on the fly. Successfully implemented solutions have reported a vast reduction in time and zero defects using the Metris Adaptive Solution. For larger applications such as the use of several robots to complete a larger task, the Metris IGPS system can be scaled up to accommodate any size.
If you think the remote controlled helicopter you got last Christmas is awesome, wait till you see this video which shows an impressive crew of miniature autonomous quad-rotors that hovers to grasp and move components working together to build a structure. This technology makes it remarkably fascinating to speculate on the future construction workers lifting assembly parts to construct buildings or skyscrapers. Quadrotors which is a project of the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is an automated electro-mechanical machine, which when programmed to work together in tandem makes up an impressive team of robots which can be told what to build and figures out the assembly plan by itself. Quadrotors are fitted with grippers to enable it to pick up parts both vertically or horizontally then tries to attach these parts into place. Equipped with artificial intelligence, the quadrotors can determine on its own if a component is fitted successfully or not, and if ever there's a need to repeat the task then it automatically retries until it establishes a successful assembly of joining building parts into place. A group of quadrotors can also be programmed to obey a synchronized system of work sequence using a program algorithm to make them follow a systematic pattern of work flow such as determining if the first quadrotor is already finish with a particular task so that the next quadrotor can proceed to do its task one after the other in a complete organized sequence.
A look at the past, present and future of robot technology. Imagine what humans are capable of doing in improving the science of robotics...or should we be more concerned with what robots may become so capable of doing to humans once robots becomes so advanced?
(ARC). Allowing for metrology-assisted production, the Metris Adaptive Control solutions
have effectively proven to achieve advancement in terms of time saving and quality driven production process
. The metrology
enabled into a robotic drilling
solution allows for the metrology device to position, verify, and validate during the process. The K-series uses LEDs to monitor the robot
, the part, the fixturing, and the drilling
, all done in real time monitoring
to instantaneously do corrections on the fly. Successfully implemented solutions have reported a vast reduction in time and zero defects using the Metris Adaptive Solution
. For larger applications such as the use of several robots to complete a larger task, the Metris IGPS system can be scaled up to accommodate any size.