Virtual Commissioning of a drone assembly cell
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Typ
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Production engineering (MPPEN), MSc
Publicerad
2020
Författare
Koppal, Vivek
Shivaraju, Chethan
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Sammanfattning
Stena industry innovation lab (SII-Lab) at Lindholmen, Göteborg is a research laboratory
that houses a testbed within Production 2030 for sustainable production. A
drone factory is one of the projects undertaken at SII-Lab. This master thesis project
aimed at automating the assembly operation of drone frame chassis with drone motors
using a 7-axis KUKA LBR iiwa robot adopting the Virtual Commissioning
method. Virtual Commissioning method is used to evaluate the functionality, performance
and safety of a production system. This method was used to simulate the
assembly operation and link the programmable logic to validate the behaviour.
The project followed a methodology drafted from an earnest literature research on
Virtual Commissioning process, that includes stages such as, data analysis, process
planning, 3D modelling, simulation and logical control programming. An additional
stage of physical implementation and verification aided in scrutinizing the
process. The assembly operation was simulated using Visual Components and Tecnomatix
Process Simulate. Further, physical station was setup by calibrating and
programming the KUKA robot and testing for accuracy with reference to simulation
applications. PLC programming for the system was prepared and tested to
achieve Virtual Commissioning. Along with the process followed, the project aimed
at answering research questions that are presented in the report. An additional
research on force/torque analysis using the sensors available on the KUKA robot
were conducted, to present possibilities in the drone assembly operation. The results
of the project are presented and concluded that, Virtual Commissioning is an
efficient method that can be adopted by manufacturing organizations for improved
performance and cost saving solutions, without production stoppage or during setup
of brownfield factories, involving process and technology improvements in the existing
facility and greenfield factories, while establishing new production solutions and
processes.
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Ämne/nyckelord
Virtual Commissioning (VCom), KUKA iiwa robot, Tecnomatix Process Simulate (TPS) , Visual Components (VC), KUKA Sunrise Workbench, Force/Torque control, TIA Portal, PLCSIM.