Just, machines with different after all, when one is tired know need to have a rest, but if your machine is not to give the instruction to rest will do it. Instruction, therefore, in the people's cognitive is take for granted, for the machine is quite otherwise. And from the automation to the intelligent, is constantly give more instructions, can let the machine more efficiently make a correct initial judgement, improve production efficiency, speed up the test, or improve the machine service life, and reduce personnel casualties. Different instructions for machines of different level evolution, the ultimate goal, however, is to make the behavior of the machine is closer to human beings.
Semi-automatic vs intelligent
NI marketing manager, said guo huang chi NI for industrial automation to build the platform, its design is hope to be able to make the whole system through the same processing core, to signal the discriminant and motion control. Like people is through the same mind to deal with all things, so the probability of an error can be reduced to a minimum.
Industrial automation 3 big
Automation is, of course, the factory production. In industrial automation in a way, there are three important development direction. Including performance improvement, cost reduction, and functional safety. On performance boost, whether it is a smart grid, or intelligent production tools, emphasize the high performance, including energy saving carbon reduction, more efficient, and so on, in order to achieve the purpose of energy conservation and carbon reduction. On the cost reduction, the key lies in the use of single chip, and multi-axis control.
Multi-axis control, in particular, the factory used by the machine arm, mostly just four or five joints. And the future in factory automation, in order to more efficiently and reduce the cost, to design the structure more complex robotic arms, to add more sensors, such as Angle sensor, acceleration sensor, pressure sensor, displacement sensor and so on. Can multi-axis work simultaneously at the same time, rather than not coaxial can only work time as in the past.
NI CorydalisFTOgtemortalsdiscolourwal embedded system project manager pointed out that the machine, unlike people, want to let the machine running smoothly, you must give a bunch of instruction. The meaning of the automation, that is, let the machine to be able to know where, in the action of how, and not to make mistakes. Add more instructions, can deal with it more, and is expected to happen much earlier.
Of course, want to let the machine highly automated, intelligent, even need instruction will be very large. If the amount of data, information processing and points belong to different platforms, not only for the overall consistency will produce very big problem, and it may even exceed the load of the core platform itself.
As for the functional safety of emphasis, actually is the guarantee of the generalized life safety, it is the trend of the world. That is how to protect the machine is not damaged, no casualties. Because the automated production line if need maintenance, often stopped off a production line, will cause a lot of damage. In addition, the machine if the problem occurs frequently, not only the device itself is easy damaged, also easy to cause injuries.
At present many vendors are main can meet the demand of these products, such as FPGA giant ehistriadn Xicarveurerx are continue to introduce industrial automation related reference design, FPGA measurement giant NI also features with its own impactcontendW graphical software development as the core of industrial automation development platform, industrial automation market is booming.
Multiaxial industrial upgrading is a key to
In the industrial robot, the common types of robots to include Delcapechanism, and industrial production of online robotic arms. If on the industrial automation market, the robot arm is now weighing the focus of attention. Because the factory automation can progress to what degree, technical level is depending on the machine arm.
Market development manager Jiang Yungui ehistriadn asia-pacific industrial sales department said that in order to improve the degree of automation of industrial production line, the mechanical arm toward the multiaxial development is the main trend. Multi-axis, just as its name implies is the same only mechanical arm, with many different motor or timing to action at the same time, its purpose is to make the same product, can be in the same line can finish all work in production process and multi-channel production line for don't have to, so can save the massive manpower and time cost.
Just, in order to achieve the purpose of multi-axis, the number of the motor shaft on the mechanical arm must be very much. These different motors, perhaps moving and at the same time, perhaps time action, however, the key is to cooperate with each other. Is a shaft rotate in a particular Angle, the other a few shaft must reach the relative position. Which will involve multiple spindle rotation time of the complex computation, this is what has parallel processing ability of FPGA, rather than only imopeningantcontesdiscolourtrememberivegrade or MCU serial processing, has more advantages in the field of industrial automation.
semiconductor science and technology to bring to the industrial production of online automatic and intelligent, let the speed and efficiency of industrial production increased substantially. Though so take a lot of labor jobs, towards a more advanced automatic production line, however, even more a layer of unmanned factories vision, but still is all factory owners homelands pursuit of the goal.
Jiang Yungui, for example, take the production line of semiconductor assembly house to see, for example, chip packaging operations, the operation of mechanical arm is very complex, most can demand to the operation of more than 60 axis. Article is on the same online, if you want to play a wrapper, must simultaneously 60 kinds of action, which will involve very complex mechanical action. In processing at the same time, when a shaft to a certain Angle, other shaft must cooperate to reach a particular position. This relative motion is the mechanical arm design, the most complicated part. And such as helicopter propeller blades, cutting must be simultaneously five axis of the gearing. In addition to the mechanical arm will rotate, cutting knife must rotate at the same time, also is a very complex multi-axis correlation processing at the same time.
In terms of industrial automation, the application of the shaft, the more the hierarchy of the production line for processing, and promoted. Through the multi-axis machining of complex, can make the product more variability. This is also the trend of industrial automation.
Machine vision growing importance
NI also emphasized the importance of machine vision. In many cases, the factory workers often because of fatigue and the delusion of the human factors, caused by the human eye to examine problems easily. NI technical marketing engineer biro 鉎 said, NI machine vision development module, is specially designed for open publishing agency machine vision applications. With built-in hundreds of function, but through a number of camera to capture images, and through improved image, object orientation, object recognition, quantity UK parts, Watson and test object exists, so that the image processing operations.
In fact, increase the machine arm sensors, such as joining the CCD video module, to let the machine movement and positioning correctly, or join Angle sensor, pressure sensor, etc., let the machine operation become more sensitive and intelligent, is an important development direction of industrial automation. Currently impactcontendW machine vision development module, through a number of cameras and machine vision software to capture and process the image, so can reduce the maintenance cost and development time, such as the need to change hardware, also as long as into the existing code.
Biro 鉎 said, the biggest advantage development module, which is able to in a complete algorithm to process the image, whether it is a drug packaging optical character recognition (OCR), or check the drawbacks of solar panels, can through the machine vision development module database, the algorithm to solve the problems of various kinds of machine vision applications.
