ADVANCED CALIBRATION SYSTEMS
Precise robot calibration with iMS: maximum precision for your production
Modern industrial robots must operate with millimeter precision to ensure consistently high production quality. Precise robot calibration and accurate TCP measurement are crucial to avoid positioning errors, scrap, and quality degradation.
Even the smallest deviations in robot kinematics can have serious consequences:
- Inaccurate component fits
- Rejection due to faulty assembly
- Losses due to incorrect workpiece positioning
Due to mechanical tolerances, temperature fluctuations, or collisions, robot geometry changes over time. The solution is continuous robot calibration with our high-precision iMS robot calibration system.
There are several calibration methods to improve robot accuracy:
- Manual calibration: using remote control or comparison measurements
- Contact calibration: using measuring probes for precise TCP measurement
- Optical calibration: using camera systems, laser measurements, or non-contact sensors
Our iMS robot calibration system combines these procedures to achieve maximum accuracy and long-term stable robot positioning.
With our iMS calibration system, you can optimize your robot calibration and increase process accuracy.
- Automated TCP and base calibration: no manual adjustments required
- Increased repeatability: minimized position deviations
- Fast commissioning and reduced maintenance: efficient robotic processes without long downtimes
- Reduced manufacturing defects: higher product quality and less waste
- Optimized robot exchange with machine learning: seamless integration of new robots
With iMS, you can prevent robot failures, reduce calibration times, and increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
Configure your iMS and choose from the following options:
Piece measurement
Diagnosis and recovery
The tool for easy recovery after accidents and collisions, and after engine or transmission replacement without training. Accurate diagnostics for wear monitoring and predictive robot maintenance.
Reduced downtime in the event of unexpected robot failure. Immediate problem detection can be achieved in just a few minutes at the touch of a button. Given the shortage of skilled workers, iMS provides immediate information to everyone to correct the cause of the error.
Quality assurance in the robotic process means ensuring product quality. Process evidence can be retrieved at the touch of a button. Maximum precision ensures reproducible process quality at all times.
TCP Measurement
TCP is the Robot Tool Center Point, also known as UTOOL in robot programs. It is the point used for positioning robots in any program that involves objectives defined in Cartesian space. The TCP is physically an imaginary point with Cartesian coordinates; in the robot simulator, it is represented as a small point or sphere, usually green, with its X, Y, and Z coordinates visible.
When the robot leaves the factory, its dimensions end at the face plate, the disk where the robot tool is mounted. Therefore, the original TCP is located in the center of the face plate. When a tool is added, the mathematical model of the original TCP must be updated so that the robot traces a path correctly. This update is done through the TCP calibration process. This indicates to the robot that its dimensions now end at the end of the added tool.
Configuring the TCP more efficiently, automatically, and in less time through our Advanced Calibration System results in improved productivity and economic benefits for our processes.
A more efficient, automated, and time-saving TCP configuration using our Advanced Calibration System results in improved process productivity, with the resulting economic benefits.
Calibrating a TCP on the tool is absolutely essential and necessary because industrial robots are highly repetitive, but in some cases, not precise. Therefore, the precision of an industrial robot can be improved by calibrating its center point on the tool, thereby improving process quality.