The focus of ArtiMinds' presence at this year's automatica trade fair is on sensor-based applications in the areas of cable handling, surface processing and mechanical assembly. In addition to automation solutions, the focus will be on the new features and interfaces of its low-code software solutions ArtiMinds RPS and ArtiMinds LAR.

Thanks to intelligent algorithms, force and image-controlled processes in particular can be programmed easily and robustly using drag & drop of predefined function blocks. Various applications with robots from Kuka, Fanuc and Universal Robots will be presented to show the range of possible applications in the field of advanced robotics.

The highlight will be a cable handling application with a Kuka robot that demonstrates the robust detection, picking and joining of free-hanging, flexible parts. The solution approach developed by ArtiMinds for this complex 2.5D application is based on a combination of a 2D laser scanner, force control and the newly developed interfaces and intelligent function modules in ArtiMinds RPS. The software first calculates the scan result with the robot movement in order to find the correct pick-up point and then performs a force-controlled joining operation.

With the CAD2Path feature, tool paths for complex contours such as mold shells can be created automatically on the basis of CAD models. © ArtiMinds

The Fanuc demo shows live teach point optimization during end-of-line testing. The robot inserts a test cable into electronic components in a force-controlled manner and releases it again. The components move back and forth on workpiece carriers on a linear axis. As the workpiece carriers have different tolerances, the robot automatically optimizes the approach position and cycle time to compensate for the drift.

A model with a cobot from Universal Robotics demonstrates how tool paths for components such as mold shells with complex contours can be created automatically. With the CAD2Path feature from ArtiMinds, CAD models can be loaded into the software, paths generated from them and then traversed in a force-controlled manner.