Energy Efficient Use of Robotics in the Automobile Industry

Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2011) 2011
Dāvis Meike, Leonīds Ribickis

This paper summarizes various methods of the energy efficient use of medium and high payload industrial robots. Approaches and according savings potential are evaluated for methods like intelligent brake management - release time and power reduction, the temporal storage of the robot’s kinetic energy with capacitive energy buffer of controller’s DCBus, the energy exchange among robot controllers is proposed. Strategic usage alternatives like robot choice, shutdown during the production-free time and setting into a particular standby mode are compared. The energy saving potentials per each method are estimated according to real body-shop production characteristics.

Keywords
industrial robots, automobile industry, energy efficiency
DOI
10.1109/ICAR.2011.6088567
Hyperlink
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6088567

Meike, D., Ribickis, L. Energy Efficient Use of Robotics in the Automobile Industry. In: Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2011), Estonia, Tallinn, 20-23 June, 2011. Piscataway: IEEE, 2011, pp.507-511. ISBN 978-1-4577-1158-9. Available from: doi:10.1109/ICAR.2011.6088567

Publication language
English (en)