An Assessment of the Smart Manufacturing Activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory Fiscal Year 2017 (2017) / Chapter Skim
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3 Robotic Systems for Smart Manufacturing
3 Robotic Systems for Smart Manufacturing
Pages 19-24
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innovation and industrial competitiveness by improving robotic system performance, collaboration, agility, and ease of integration into the enterprise to achieve dynamic production for assembly-centric manufacturing.1 This is achieved through a variety of technical activities, including the following: discussions with stakeholders to assess needs; identifying gaps in standards; researching in relevant hardware to define useful metrics; developing technological best practices; defining test methods and artifacts; disseminating results that contribute to standards development; forming working groups of relevant stakeholders; and leading in standards development. This work is conducted primarily by personnel from the EL Intelligent Systems Division.
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The Performance of Collaborative Robot Systems project has provided critical contributions to the development of multiple standards for safe operations of collaborative robots, including the first international technical specification for safe operation of collaborative industrial robot systems, ISO Technical Specification 15066 Robot and Robotic Devices -- Collaborative Robots. The RSSM Performance Assessment Framework for Robotic Systems project team founded the Committee on Performance Standards for Industrial Vehicles, and developed the ANSI/ITSDG B56.5 Safety Standard for Driverless, Automatic Guided Industrial Vehicles and Automated Functions of Manned Industrial Vehicles.
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Furthermore, the RSSM staff could lead in the development of a more systematic methodology for generating test and use cases. This methodology could include gap identification, research, developing metrics, developing test methods and artifacts, standard development, evaluation, and dissemination.
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Four guest researchers currently on the RSSM staff are from the collaborative partner universities. All of these engagement activities are important for enabling the RSSM staff to understand the needs of the industrial user community and draw on the collective manufacturing robotics expertise across the technical community.
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These laboratories include testbeds and facilities for safety validation systems, multirobot collaboration, human-robot interaction, dexterous grasping performance measurement, task-oriented performance measurement, mobile industrial vehicle testing, mobile manipulator performance, agility testing, and sensor/robot calibration and registration. These facilities are well equipped with many state-of-the-art industrial and collaborative robots from top robotics vendors (e.g., Kuka, Rethink Robotics, Universal Robots, ABB Robotics, Fanuc, and Motoman)
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Given that the RSSM research projects share many common technologies, science, and resource needs, and can benefit from knowledge exchange, these separations between the project teams might contribute to less cohesiveness and overall impact than might be possible through colocated facilities. Several of the testbeds developed for individual projects have overlapping capabilities, but cannot currently be integrated because they do not have interoperable software.
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