Robot Calibration Solution RMS Verifies Robot Accuracy to ISO 9283

API's Robot Measurement Solution (RMS) provides the complete toolkit necessary to verify robot accuracy to the ISO 9283 standard, allowing on-site, in-situ, robot performance verification and enhanced robot calibration to be performed.

The delivered solution includes API’s 6 DoF RADIAN Laser Tracker complimented by the API Smart Track Sensor, which mounts directly to the robot’s end effector, allowing the laser tracker to dynamically collect X, Y, Z, and I, J, K data for each robot position in space accurately and automatically.

The robot is automatically driven to discrete positions using API’s Robot Performance Measurement (RPM) Software, providing fully automated measurements and data acquisition and allowing customization of the actual workspace under calibration. Up to 30 robot parameters can be calibrated in a completely automated run-time.

API’s RMS provides a single seamless solution for robot process performance enhancement and optimization. RMS can be supplied as a Robot Performance Measurement (RPM) module or combined Robot Calibration (RoboCal) and Robot Path Plan Enhancement (PPE) module. Robocal offers both the DH kinematic model and a volumetric error compensation model (VEC) to update robot accuracy using collected data. Once a Robot has been calibrated existing robot path programs can be automatically updated driving the robot to its corrected calibrated positions.