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The SensONE T80 mounted on a Common Robotic collaborative robotic arm. | Supply: Bota Techniques
Bota Techniques AG, a developer of multi-axis, force-torque sensors, final week launched the SensONE T80. The Zurich-based firm stated it designed its newest sensor for bigger collaborative robots. The SensONE T80 options ISO-standard flanges on each side and is meant to simplify integration and guarantee accuracy even with heavier payloads.
The SensONE T80 is supplied with ISO-9409-1-80-6-M8 flanges. These immediately match the mounting flanges on the newest cobots from Common Robots, eliminating the necessity for an adapter. Bota Techniques stated this eliminates the necessity for added engineering to design adapter mounting gear, considerably decreasing time to market.
The sensor additionally consists of an ISO 9409-1-50-4-M6 flange to accommodate third-party gadgets suitable with Common Robots, facilitating the event of recent interfaces.
“This sensor, that includes ISO flanges on each side, is an ideal match for the UR20 and UR30 fashions,” stated Susanne Noerdinger, the top of ecosystem success for Europe, the Center East, and Africa (EMEA) at Common Robots.
“It gives a high-precision, direct-fit answer that simplifies integration for our prospects, enabling them to leverage the total capabilities of our cobots in demanding functions like heavy palletizing and welding,” she added. “This collaboration with Bota Techniques will increase the sensitivity and precision of options with UR, giving our prospects the instruments they should innovate and automate extra successfully.”
The SensONE T80 sensor is designed for simple integration with UR cobot arms. Supply: Bota Techniques
A lighter sensor means extra payload capability, says Bota Techniques
A robotic force-torque sensor measures pressure and torque utilized to its floor. Utilizing these real-time measurements in suggestions management permits robots to carry out complicated interplay duties with precision.
Bota Techniques stated that by eradicating the necessity for an adapter, the general weight of the sensor meeting is minimized. This permits the robotic’s payload capability to be absolutely used for materials dealing with relatively than merely supporting end-of-arm tooling.
As well as, the elimination of adapters reduces the chance of utilizing inappropriate supplies that would compromise sensor stiffness and have an effect on measurement accuracy, the corporate famous.
“The SensONE T80 is especially useful for functions comparable to heavy palletizing and tightening duties (usually dealt with by the UR30) and welding (frequent for the UR20),” said Klajd Lika, co-founder and CEO of Bota Techniques. “Further functions embody large-scale sanding and sharpening, precision mechanical meeting, and face matching/alignment of heavy workpieces, comparable to in CNC loader operations.”
The SensONE T80 can deal with as much as 80Nm of torque. Its peak-to-peak noise (measured at six occasions the usual deviation) is 0.3N for pressure measurements and 0.012Nm for torque, reaching the identical precision ranges as sensors used for lower-payload cobots.
Bota Techniques stated its torque vary helps the total payload capacities for cobots together with the 25 kg and 35 kg capacities just lately launched for the UR20 and the UR30, respectively.
Merchandise at RoboBusiness, Buyer Expertise Middle
Spun out of ETH Zurich in 2020, Bota Techniques stated its SensONE sensors allow human-machine interplay and may present pressure, imaginative and prescient, and inertia knowledge. The firm, which exhibited at RoboBusiness final week, stated its sensors can be utilized in quite a lot of robotics functions, together with rehabilitation, precision meeting, product testing, sharpening and grinding, and surgical procedure.
In April, Bota Techniques launched PixONE, a sensor that brings collectively high-performance electronics with a compact, light-weight design. The corporate stated it designed these sensors for “seamless integration into robotic programs.”
PixONE contains a through-hole structure facilitating inner cable routing to reinforce robotic agility and security, claimed the corporate.
Bota Techniques additionally introduced a brand new Buyer Expertise Middle at at HEIDENHAIN’s CONNECT Manufacturing Innovation Hub in Fremont, Calif. The brand new middle will present its full portfolio of force-torque sensors alongside a Mecademic robotic demonstrating cutting-edge functions. Guests can see how these sensors can optimize robotic efficiency in a spread of business settings.
The Buyer Expertise Middle at HEIDENHAIN Join Innovation Hub in California. Supply: Bota Techniques
