Kazan University introduces collaborative robot project at the 26th Russian Industrialist Forum
The event is held on 29 November – 1 December in Saint Petersburg.
KFU’s Cyber Auto Tech (automotive engineering school) was presented by its Director Guzel Kapitonova and Director of the Institute of Computational Mathematics and IT Dmitry Chikrin.
Director Chikrin spoke about the concept of cobots and their advantages: compactness, precision, programmability, flexibility, and cost reduction.
As for Cyber Auto Tech’s existing advancements, there is a draft project of a cobot with the following functions: drilling, countersinking, chip removal, rivet feeding, rivet forming, sealant feeding, riveting quality control, and step size check. The cobot will be able to move along vertical, horizontal and inclined surfaces, work with various instruments, and scan pictures manually drawn by a human partner on an object of processing.
The project is implemented by KFU’s Center of Excellence for Special Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. The materials will be offered to other universities as a best practice.
Cobots are promising for a wide range of industries, including automotive, aviation building, shipbuilding, scientific research, electronics, food processing, medicine, cosmetology, polymer processing, and others. Several big brands in aviation, shipbuilding and machinery have agreed to serve as test grounds for the cobot initiative in the Republic of Tatarstan and Leningrad Oblast.
Among the tasks to be solved by the cobots are assembly, coating, polishing, machine servicing (for molding machines, bending presses, computer numerical control machines, etc.), packaging, labeling, cleaning, milling, drilling, and quality control.