Recuperated Energy Savings Potential and Approaches in Industrial Robotics

7th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2011): Proceedings 2011
Dāvis Meike, Leonīds Ribickis

This paper presents the experimental and simulation results of industrial robot’s recuperated energy saving approaches. Two complementary alternatives- a capacitive energy buffer on the robot’s DC-bus is evaluated and a novel approach, the robot EnergyTeam has been proposed. The principle of robot EnergyTeam is the DC-bus merging among various number of industrial robot power controllers thus enabling a controlled energy flow among the robots that decelerate and, therefore, recuperate the energy and those that simultaneously require a peak power supply for the acceleration. Cost efficiency is estimated considering the characteristics in robotics of real production in the automobile industry.

Keywords
Industrial Robotics, Recuperated Energy
DOI
10.1109/CASE.2011.6042435
Hyperlink
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6042435

Meike, D., Ribickis, L. Recuperated Energy Savings Potential and Approaches in Industrial Robotics. In: 7th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2011): Proceedings, Italy, Trieste, 25-25 August, 2011. Piscataway: IEEE, 2011, pp.299-303. ISBN 978-1-4577-1730-7. e-ISBN 978-1-4577-1731-4. ISSN 2161-8070. Available from: doi:10.1109/CASE.2011.6042435

Publication language
English (en)