AUTHOR=Wabner Markus , Rentzsch Hendrik , Ihlenfeldt Steffen , Otto Andreas TITLE=Technological robot—Machine tool collaboration for agile production JOURNAL=Frontiers in Robotics and AI VOLUME=9 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/articles/10.3389/frobt.2022.1027173 DOI=10.3389/frobt.2022.1027173 ISSN=2296-9144 ABSTRACT=

The flexibility and efficiency in parts production can be significantly increased through the technological cooperation of industrial robots and machine tools. The paper presents an approach in which a robot, in addition to the classic handling tasks, enhance machine tools by additional manufacturing technologies and thus beneficially supports workpiece machining. This can take place in various configurations, starting with pre- and final machining by the robot outside the machine, through sequential cooperative machining of the workpiece clamped in the machine, to parallel, synchronized machining of a workpiece in the machine. The approach results in a novel type of collaborative manufacturing equipment for matrix production that will improve the versatility, efficiency and profitability in production.