The result consists in a robotic platform for the autonomous wiring of the electrical connection of industrial switchgear.
The robots start the operation by grasping the cables at the ends from a warehouse. Depending on the connection position, one robot is assigned as primary and move to perform the insertion of the connection inside the components. The second robot instead follows the primary while making the cable in tension to avoid the latter to get stacked in the switchgear.
A third arm operates a tool capable to open the spring-based mechanism or a screwdriver for opening and fixing the cables.
The operation are automatically generated from the product design. The planning of the trajectory is robot-agnostic and can be easily interfaced with any robot brand.
The proposed solution demonstrates the feasibility of this automation process at industrial scale, enabling both to have a fully monitored and repeatable quality control process and to save a significant amount of human work for this tedious and repetitive task.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- Incubators / Accelerators
We need to get in contact with/for the specific need:
- actors interested in financing the final stage of development of the proposed solution
- companies developing the CAD software used to design the switchgears to integrate more the solution with the design software
- manufacturer of components to define the type and the format of data required to enable the handling of components by the developed platform
- experts in commercial strategies to understand and exploit the market potential
- Other Actors who can help us fulfil our market potential
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
A TRL6 demonstrator has been developed.
The next steps consists in:
- obtain new funds for the next development steps
- improving the efficency of the process
- validate the system over a relevant number of products
- validate the system in the industrial scenario
- develop a commercial strategy
- participate to fairs to disseminate the result
- reach potential customers
