[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [ROS-Industrial] Streaming Motion Interfaces

[gavanderhoorn]

[quote="Martin_Guenther, post:7, topic:5858, full:true"]
the solution is also a very typical solution by automation engineers: Painstakingly re-engineer the environment and the product to solve one specific problem in robotic assembly. Rinse, repeat. This is why automation is prohibitively expensive today.
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What is also often done in these cases actually is to use some (passive) compliance. Either make the EEF compliant in such a way that it can deal with positional variation in the environment (ie: hole not in the exact spot) or make the robot control compliant. Various industrial robot OEMs have solutions for this. One example would be Fanuc's *soft float*: it makes the robot compliant in one or more (Cartesian) axes allowing it again to 'cope' with a certain amount of positional variation when needed (of course having a lead-in bolt helps always).





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