Force-controlled robot applications

Force-torque sensors are used to compensate manufacturing tolerances or wear, thereby increase the robustness. For integration, robot manufacturers offer extensive technology packages for their robot controllers. In order to integrate these special expertise and extensive programming skills are usually necessary, which in turn is reflected in the budget and time required.

Bypass these disadvantages with ArtiMinds RPS +Force! Implement your force-controlled robot application with the appropriate force-torque sensor even without special knowledge and in very short time. Test solutions such as probing, searching for holes or torque balancing live on the robot without high programming effort – and thus save a lot of time and money during process development. Use the innovative solutions of ArtiMinds RPS +Force also for your flexible robot-based automation with force-torque sensors.

The most important functionalities at a glance:

Broad support of force sensors

ArtiMinds RPS +Force supports a wide range of force sensors, e.g. from ATI, Wacoh, OnRobot, Robotiq and Weiss Robotics. Choose the best force sensor for your application – ranging from tenths of newtons to kilonewtons. If you want to use different hardware or require assistance in choosing a force sensor, send an inquiry to contact@artiminds.com. Our free white paper provides an overview of the supported robot manufacturers and peripheral devices.

Easy setup and verification

Easily configure the settings and mounting of your force-torque sensor in the robot configurator either numerically or in 3D. Test if everything works as expected using an automated connection test.

Tactile sensitivity and hand guiding

A large set of templates allows for fast implementation of tasks with tactile sensitivity. Easily compensate tolerances which would crash a robot without sensors. ArtiMinds RPS provides broadly applicable force-sensitive skills leading to high process reliability. The automatic correction of the robot motion forms the basis to optimize the robot program using ArtiMinds LAR. ArtiMinds RPS +Force provides helper tools to guide your robot assisted by its force measurements.

Optimized robot code

ArtiMinds RPS +Force automatically generates optimized robot code. The generated robot code uses available software add-ons of the robot manufacturer to ensure the best available process reliability. You don’t have to pay attention to the implementation details of the chosen robot manufacturer or force sensor. ArtiMinds RPS +Force will automatically solve tasks like the parameterization of force controllers, communication setup or transformation of forces to specific contact points for you.

Live sensor data

ArtiMinds RPS +Force adds additional channels to the live sensor data. Analyze forces and torques transformed into a contact point or as raw data to qualify your process and ensure the process specification is met. Easily stream sensor data with high frequencies up to 500Hz. Export all channels as a .csv file to document your process. Discover the benefits of ArtiMinds LAR with live data.