Franka PCB Pick-up & Detection Solution

Franka Emika Panda co-robot

In the first quarter of 2019, Yizumi and FrankaEmika, a German robotics company, has signed a collaboration agreement,officially establishing a cooperation relationship. According to the agreement,Yizumi will be the authorized distributor of Panda, a world-renowned co-robotin Chinese market. Additionally, YIZUMI will also develop an in-depth R&Dand collaboration in various application fields.

At Chinaplas 2019, Yizumi will present the theFranka Emika co-robot for the first time. Panda will display flexible PCBpick-up and quality detection, showing the huge potential for application andmore possibilities for the new generation of equipment.

Printed circuit board (PCB), as the carrier ofelectrical connection of electronic components, is light, thin and fragile. Itneeds to be tightly fixed during installation to ensure stable operation of thepart. At present, PCB fixation is still mostly completed by manual or specialtooling, which is time-consuming and costly.

So how is the Franka Emika collaborative robot fitfor the PCB pick-up and detection?

Adaptive

Traditional industrial robot gripping operations require complete station programming in accordance with established procedures. However, since the PCB is relatively thin and light, the workmanship caused by the handling process is greater than the requirement of the insertion end, which often causes the PCB to be unable to be placed, or the hard contact directly damages the PCB due to the deviation.

The Franka Emika collaborative robot has all the torque sensors installed on the 7-axis. From the clamp of the PCB to the insertion, the whole process allows a certain difference, and the posture and motion of the robot can be adjusted according to the force feedback induced during the insertion. It could be as flexible as human hand, until the PCB is completely inserted.

The Franka Emika collaborative robot can be manually adjusted the range to suit different production scenarios, such as oblique inlays and profiled inlays in the molding process.

Accessible for everyone

The Franka Emika collaborative robot can be programmed in G language and drag-and-drop teaching. The system can be operated via Apps like a smartphone and be taught new tasks within a few minutes, without requiring any programming skills. Customers can set different operational tasks according to their own needs.

Safe interaction

An important feature of collaborative robots is the ability to work closely with people in a common space. Because the 7-axis has a torsion sensor, the Franka Emika collaborative robot can feel a slight collision of 0.05N, completely ensuring the safety of people or equipment. This exhibition is also unprotected display, which can achieve "intimate contact" between man and machine.

As a safe, cost-effective collaborative robot, Franka Emika products are suitable for a variety of application scenarios. It also has a wide application space for rubber and plastic products and upstream and downstream fields. In the future, Yizumi will work with Franka Emika to continuously explore customer demands and pain points, provide better industrial application solutions based on the customer's actual production scenario.