The research group composed of experts from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that with the continuous development of robot automation technology, the application field of robot automation equipment will be more extensive.
The industrial robot born in the manufacturing industry is a new generation of production tools that extend human’s physical strength and intelligence after the power engine and computer. Robot is a kind of highly flexible automation equipment, which has a special significance to improve the flexibility of manufacturing line. As the main automation equipment of modern manufacturing industry, it is widely used in manufacturing industry, and will play an increasingly important role in the future manufacturing enterprises.
Robots and their automated equipment are large automatic production lines with robots as the core and information technology and network technology as the medium, which connect all the equipment together. The ownership and level of robots and their automation equipment is one of the important symbols to measure the comprehensive strength of a country’s manufacturing industry. Robot and its automation equipment has become a highly valued high-tech application field at home and abroad.
Our country began to develop its own industrial robot in 1972. At present, there are more than 200 units engaged in robot research and manufacturing. However, Chinese robot industrialization started late, the pace is slow, industrial robots also rely on imports for a long time.
The development and production of industrial robots of our country started from the “Seventh Five-Year Plan”, and through the technological breakthrough of “Seventh Five-Year Plan” and “Eighth Five-Year Plan”, the design and manufacturing techniques of robot manipulator, control system hardware and software design techniques, kinematics and trajectory planning techniques, produced some of the key robotic components and components, and developed spraying, arc welding, spot welding, assembly, handling and other robots. According to experts introduce, the demand for industrial robot of our country grows by more than 30% per year during the “Ninth Five-Year Plan” period. In 2000, the number of industrial robots in China was about 3,500, among which various kinds of robots, such as spot welding, arc welding, painting, injection molding, assembly, handling and stamping, were the main ones, with a sales volume of 670 million yuan.