Bota Systems Cutting-Edge Force Torque Sensors Use-Cases
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Polishing and Grinding:
The SensONE enables faster and more efficient work processes, reducing the wear on abrasive disks, and lowering the risks of injuries for workers. It also ensures consistent and controlled force application, resulting in higher quality production.
Precision:
The SensONE ensures controlled insertion, high tolerance assembly, and quality control, resulting in increased productivity. In product testing, it provides improved quality control and increased efficiency.
Rehabilitation with Robotic Systems:
The SensONE offers refined haptic interaction between patients, therapists, and robots, while ensuring consistent and controlled rehabilitation, with quantifiable tracking of patient progress. Accurate diagnostic reports and lower costs for physiotherapy are added benefits.
Robotic assisted surgery:
The SensONE reduces medical risks, provides a sense of security for both patients and surgeons, results in less post-surgery scars, shorter recovery times, and lower costs per operation.
Supernumerary Robotic Manipulation for Laparoscopic Surgery. SRD@AIM-20
Problem
Manipulation tasks are often bimanual, regardless that in several cases humans require to be assisted to successfully achieve their tasks, could be for assembly or positioning ; could be for precise applications or when manipulating heavy objects. To this end, more attention and coordination is required between the two persons, or more, involved in the same manipulation task. In our project we envision to give the control to only one operator, who will finally carry out the manipulation using his two biological hands, while being in control of two robotic arms- This supernumerary 4-handed manipulation has the main objective to increase the success of the operation by decreasing communication errors between the operator and his assistant, by increasing the manipulation area and by easing the execution of the tasks in giving the full control to only one operator. In 2016 we already proved that even in demanding tasks, three-handed manipulation is preferred to two-handed manipulation.
Solution
This presentation will address the application of laparoscopic surgery. It is a follow up of our investigation to the capabilities of surgeons to foot-control a laparoscopic instrument. A bipedal foot interface has been developed to achieved the control of two robotic arms, 5 degrees of freedom each. This foot-haptic interface is capable to provide 5 DOFs foot force feedback to improve foot control perception. On the other side, the robots are implemented with assistance control strategies. The presented results will point out that force assistance improves human-robot interaction in four-handed manipulation, as well as reduces fatigue, improves ease of use and usefulness.
Outcome
''Reliable and easy to integrate mechanically and electrically, as well for the programming interface."- Dr. Mohamed Bouri, Research scientist at EPFL
Installing a force torque sensor in under a minute
Solution
Collaborative Robotics 6-Axis Force Torque Sensor for advanced applications in the automation and robotics industry. Its USB or RS422/RS485 output can deliver up to 1000 samples per second. A compact dustproof and waterproof package with an integrated ISO 9409-1-50-4-M6 mounting flange means that no adapter is needed, but only fasteners.
Outcome
''I am very happy about the involvement and help we received in setting up the sensor for our application."- Thomas Louwagie, Mechanical Design Engineer, KU Leuven