Analysis of the performance of robotic assembly systems considering the usage of tools or jigs for the task-board task in the WRS 2018

Abstract

ABSTRACT A task-board task is a task in which robots perform a set of fundamental assembly operations related to the assembly of a specific product such as inserting a part into another part, tightening bolts and nuts, attaching flexible parts, etc. In the task-board task competition in the industrial robotics category of the World Robot Summit (WRS) 2018, 15 teams from around the world performed the task. In our previous work, we observed recorded videos of the competition frame by frame and manually investigated the performance of robotic systems of the top four teams, focusing only on whether robots contact target parts. In this paper, we introduce frame sets to represent mainly contact states between robots, tools, or jigs and target parts to be handled for such a frame-by-frame analysis of the recorded videos, and based on the frame sets, we analyze the performance of robotic assembly systems of other teams as well as the top four teams in the task-board task competition in the WRS 2018, considering the usage of tools or jigs.