Virtual Work Robot Simulation for Pre-Assembly Capability Checks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Constructing a work system with work robots requires high engineering skills and can be challenging due to limited work range and content compatibility, making it difficult to determine if a work robot can execute a specific task without assembly and potential obstacles.
Innovation Solution
An information providing device that registers and stores information on structures and processing models related to work robots, allowing for virtual simulation of the work system's operation, enabling easier selection and connection of components without actual assembly, and outputs the processing result for evaluation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a work robot is purchased and assembled to construct a work system, then the system can perform specific work on workpieces, but the construction requires high teaching skills and is difficult to modify when obstacles are found
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by enabling work capability verification through virtual simulation before actual robot purchase and assembly. The system allows users to select work robots and workpieces from databases, simulate the work process in a virtual environment, and confirm work capability in advance, thereby avoiding the need for high teaching skills during actual construction and facilitating easy modification if obstacles are found.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a work robot is purchased and assembled, then the system can be constructed, but it is difficult to determine whether the work can be executed without assembly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies copying by creating virtual copies of work robots and workpieces in a database with their respective work capability information. The virtual simulation system uses these copies to simulate and verify work capability before actual assembly, allowing users to determine whether the work can be executed without physical assembly, thereby saving assembly time and resources.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple structures are connected and assembled to expand work range, then versatility is improved, but the complexity of construction and modification increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by enabling virtual simulation and verification of multiple structures connected and assembled before actual construction. Users can select multiple work robots and workpieces from databases, simulate their combined work capability in a virtual environment, and confirm versatility in advance, thereby reducing the complexity of actual construction and modification while expanding work range.
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AI summary
An information providing device includes a storage section configured to register and store information related to a work robot and information on processing models related to the structures, an operation program configured to execute an operation of a work system in a virtual space by using information on the structures and information on a processing model related to the structures; and a control section configured to acquire selection information in which the information on the two or more structures and the processing model related to the structures stored in the storage section are selected, read the information on the structures and the information on the processing model included in the selection information from the storage section, execute processing of the processing model in a state in which the two or more structures are connected by the operation program in the virtual space, and output an executed processing result.