The Age of Robot Advancement: Limitations Facing Control Platforms
The industrial robot market is rapidly diversifying, driven by increasing demands for high-mix, low-volume production and equipment customization. Consequently, robot control platforms are now simultaneously faced with three core challenges, moving beyond simple motion command execution:
- Structural Vibration : Completely eliminating structural vibration that occurs during high-speed operations.
- Non-Standard Structure Support : Flexibly supporting non-standardized robot configurations.
- Control Logic Simplification : Simplifying complex control logic.
It is now essential for robot control platforms to transition to a next-generation platform equipped with ‘algorithms that overcome structural limitations.’
Daincube’s coreCon provides an innovative, integrated solution that addresses all three challenges within a single platform. coreCon is Daincube’s brand for its EtherCAT-based robot control platform and represents a next-generation control system that integrates three key performance aspects: high speed, high precision, and high flexibility.
Challenge 1. Proprietary Algorithm: Ultra-Precision Control of Robot Residual Vibration
Residual vibration generated during high-speed operation of a robot or equipment is a major cause of decreased precision and production speed. coreCon fundamentally solves this problem through its proprietary anti-vibration algorithms, ensuring optimal and stable performance during high-speed, high-precision operation in any environment.
| Vibration Suppression Algorithm | Benefit and Market Edge |
|---|---|
| Smooth (S-Curve) Profiling | Guarantees smooth control of acceleration/deceleration using an S-curve, reducing physical impact and residual oscillation, thus extending the equipment's operational life. |
| Input Shaping Filter | Intelligently pre-processes command inputs to virtually eliminate structural resonant frequencies. This is especially effective at ensuring exceptional stability in machinery susceptible to resonance. |
| Table Profile Control | Offers time-velocity table-based user-defined profiles, empowering engineers to precisely craft motion trajectories optimized for specific process requirements and equipment structure. |
Challenge 2. Kinematic Flexibility: Customized Control Fully Supporting Non-Standard Structures
Daincube's coreCon extends its support from standard robots to perfectly integrate with non-standard structures customized for the client's unique production environment.
- Support for Diverse Standard and Non-Standard Kinematics: coreCon stably supports a variety of standard robot kinematics including Cartesian, SCARA, Delta, 6-axis articulated, and UR types. It also accommodates highly complex, non-standard structures, such as Custom WTR/FTR, which are crucial components in the semiconductor and display industries.
- Unified Control Environment: By managing diverse robot structures within a single platform, coreCon minimizes the time and cost associated with software redevelopment or operator retraining, even when equipment is modified or new production lines are introduced.
Challenge 3. Innovative Functions: A Development Environment that Simplifies Complex Control Logic
coreCon simplifies the control programming of complex multi-axis robot systems, significantly reducing development time while improving maintenance efficiency.
- Virtual Axis Function: Allows the creation of virtual axes without physical motors, enabling the movements of multiple physical axes to be handled simply as a single axis.
- Hint and Cofactor (Interlocking Axis Correction): The Hint function allows developers to select control conditions, enabling the motion system to execute movements according to the desired behavior. The Cofactor function compensates for errors that may occur during synchronized multi-axis operations in real time, thereby enhancing overall accuracy.
These functions allow even new engineers to quickly contribute to development, resulting in substantial savings in client development resources.
coreCon: The Integrated Platform Solution for All Robot and Equipment Control
By integrating vibration control, non-standard structure support, and control logic simplification, the coreCon platform has been successfully deployed across various advanced industries both domestically and globally — including WTRs, FTRs, display handling robots, logistics robots, and take-out robots.
With coreCon, Daincube enables unified operation of all robots and equipment on a single platform, reducing the complexity of system integration for our clients and maximizing long-term operational efficiency.
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