Bernecker & Rainer Industrie Elektronik GmbH (B&R) provides its customers with automation to provide maximum flexibility and economic efficiency. B&R worked with Codian Robotics, a supplier of pick-and-place robots, to power a family of delta robots for different applications across multiple industries.
The team used MapleSim, the high-fidelity modelling and simulation platform from Maplesoft to develop and test a delta robot model, based on the Codian D4-1300 robot. The goal of the project was to develop a model that would represent the Codian robot with sufficient accuracy, such that motor sizing could be confidently performed using the model, eliminating the need for physical prototypes…
Read the full story above in the Changing Face of Robotics Magazine.
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