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A methodology for industrial robot calibration based on measurement sub-regions

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This paper proposes a methodology for calibration of industrial robots that uses a concept of measurement sub-regions, allowing low-cost solutions and easy implementation to meet the robot accuracy requirements in industrial applications. The solutions to increasing the accuracy of robots today have high-cost implementation, making calibration throughout the workplace in industry a difficult and unlikely task. Thus, reducing the time spent and the measured workspace volume of the robot end-effector are the main benefits of the implementation of the sub-region concept, ensuring sufficient flexibility in the measurement step of robot calibration procedures. The main contribution of this article is the proposal and discussion of a methodology to calibrate robots using several small measurement sub-regions and gathering the measurement data in a way equivalent to the measurements made in large volume regions, making feasible the use of high-precision measurement systems but limited to small volumes, such as vision-based measurement systems. The robot calibration procedures were simulated according to the literature, such that results from simulation are free from errors due to experimental setups as to isolate the benefits of the measurement proposal methodology. In addition, a method to validate the analytical off-line kinematic model of industrial robots is proposed using the nominal model of the robot supplier incorporated into its controller.

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Toquica, J.S., Motta, J.M.S.T. A methodology for industrial robot calibration based on measurement sub-regions. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 119, 1199–1216 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-021-08308-4

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