A Small 3D Printed Robotic Arm for Teaching Industry 4.0 and Robotic Engineering

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21240%2F24%3A00381970" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21240/24:00381970 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10711758" target="_blank" >https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10711758</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CASE59546.2024.10711758" target="_blank" >10.1109/CASE59546.2024.10711758</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A Small 3D Printed Robotic Arm for Teaching Industry 4.0 and Robotic Engineering

Original language description

Industrial robotic arms with at least six degrees of freedom, a key component of Industry 4.0, even small ones, are still relatively inaccessible to a wider range of users, experimenters, and educators due to their high cost and the need to ensure operational safety. Moreover, the industrial robotic arms are often closed systems, which makes these machines unsuitable for mechanical modifications and teaching robotics engineering. We therefore took a different path, namely we wanted to construct our own small desktop robotic arm with as much of our own creation as possible and everything as open-source so that students and other researchers could freely use our work and modify it. 3D printing technology is a perfect fit for us, which is currently so advanced that it makes 3D printing a viable manufacturing process for prototyping and manufacturing various products on a small scale, including small machines, and also mechanical parts of robotic arms. From our point of view, we consider 3D printing as a tool for making robotic engineering accessible to a wide group of students. In this article, we describe the design and construction of an affordable yet powerful robotic arm with 6 (+1 for the end effector) degrees of freedom, which we named Real Robot One (RR1 in short). In the design of the RR1, we emphasized the greatest possible use of locally produced parts (especially bearings and other non-printed parts). Since the RR1 is much smaller than industrial robotic arms, the safety costs are eliminated with our robot - it is completely safe to be in touch with the robot during operation. Our robot can serve as a teaching aid for preparing experts for Industry 4.0 as a small model of a production line consisting of these robots can be set up in a small laboratory.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-31346S" target="_blank" >GA22-31346S: logicMOVE: Logic Reasoning in Motion Planning for Multiple Robotic Agents</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)

ISBN

979-8-3503-5851-3

ISSN

2161-8070

e-ISSN

2161-8089

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

2274-2280

Publisher name

IEEE Xplore

Place of publication

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Event location

Bari

Event date

Aug 28, 2024

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

001361783101144