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The SensONE T80 mounted on a Common Robotic collaborative robotic arm. | Supply: Bota Methods
Bota Methods 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 either side and is meant to simplify integration and guarantee accuracy even with heavier payloads.
The SensONE T80 is provided with ISO-9409-1-80-6-M8 flanges. These instantly match the mounting flanges on the most recent cobots from Common Robots, eliminating the necessity for an adapter. Bota Methods stated this eliminates the necessity for added engineering to design adapter mounting tools, considerably lowering 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 latest interfaces.
“This sensor, that includes ISO flanges on either side, is an ideal match for the UR20 and UR30 fashions,” stated Susanne Noerdinger, the pinnacle of ecosystem success for Europe, the Center East, and Africa (EMEA) at Common Robots.
“It supplies a high-precision, direct-fit resolution that simplifies integration for our clients, enabling them to leverage the total capabilities of our cobots in demanding purposes like heavy palletizing and welding,” she added. “This collaboration with Bota Methods will increase the sensitivity and precision of options with UR, giving our clients the instruments they should innovate and automate extra successfully.”
The SensONE T80 sensor is designed for straightforward integration with UR cobot arms. Supply: Bota Methods
A lighter sensor means extra payload capability, says Bota Methods
A robotic force-torque sensor measures drive and torque utilized to its floor. Utilizing these real-time measurements in suggestions management permits robots to carry out advanced interplay duties with precision.
Bota Methods stated that by eradicating the necessity for an adapter, the general weight of the sensor meeting is minimized. This enables the robotic’s payload capability to be totally used for materials dealing with quite 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 purposes comparable to heavy palletizing and tightening duties (sometimes dealt with by the UR30) and welding (widespread for the UR20),” acknowledged Klajd Lika, co-founder and CEO of Bota Methods. “Further purposes embrace large-scale sanding and sprucing, 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 drive measurements and 0.012Nm for torque, attaining the identical precision ranges as sensors used for lower-payload cobots.
Bota Methods stated its torque vary helps the total payload capacities for cobots together with the 25 kg and 35 kg capacities lately launched for the UR20 and the UR30, respectively.
Merchandise at RoboBusiness, Buyer Expertise Middle
Spun out of ETH Zurich in 2020, Bota Methods stated its SensONE sensors allow human-machine interplay and may present drive, imaginative and prescient, and inertia knowledge. The firm, which exhibited at RoboBusiness final week, stated its sensors can be utilized in a wide range of robotics purposes, together with rehabilitation, precision meeting, product testing, sprucing and grinding, and surgical procedure.
In April, Bota Methods 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 encompasses a through-hole structure facilitating inside cable routing to boost robotic agility and security, claimed the corporate.
Bota Methods 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 purposes. Guests can see how these sensors can optimize robotic efficiency in a variety of business settings.
The Buyer Expertise Middle at HEIDENHAIN Join Innovation Hub in California. Supply: Bota Methods