Optimal robot placement using response surface method
Journal article, 2009

This paper is concerned with a new approach for optimal placement of a prescribed task in the workspace of a robotic manipulator. The approach is resulted by applying response surface method on concept of path translation and path rotation. A robotic optimization tool based on this approach is developed as an add-in to RobotStudio. The methodology has been carefully verified by optimizing the position of several kinds of industrial robots and paths in four showcases to attain minimum cycle time. The results indicate that an increase in productivity up to 37%, compared to the admissible location with the highest cycle time, is achieved by optimally positioning the task in the robot workspace.

minimum cycle time

optimal placement

productivity

Robot

response surface method

Author

Behnam Kamrani

MSC.Software Sweden AB

Viktor Berbyuk

Dynamics

Daniel Wäppling

ABB

Uwe Stickelmann

RWTH Aachen University

Xiaolong Feng

ABB

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

0268-3768 (ISSN) 1433-3015 (eISSN)

Vol. 44 1-2 201-210

Subject Categories

Applied Mechanics

Computational Mathematics

DOI

10.1007/s00170-008-1824-7

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