Industrial Robots in a Flexible Assembly System

Th is paper describes the virtual assembly automation systems, as decision support systems, for the better knowledge of assembly operation. The study of this procedure is described as well as the necessity for assembly systems design. The work draws on research into product and manufacturing knowledge models, and uses a case study based on a simplified assembly line realized in Delphi programming medium. The use of the virtual prototype suggests itself as the starting point to develop the real system. Based on this model, the authors developed a systematic procedure by means of Delph i language. The authors describe results obtained in their investigation concerning the virtual prototype of the flexib le assembly system. The paper describes with enough detail the adopted solutions used to perform those tasks, giving special attention to the software designed to supervise the system. To support robot work simulation, a simulator environment is developed. In this paper, the authors have proposed a virtual prototype model for assembly system architecture of robotic assembly automat ion and propose to extend this virtual model to prepare drive automation systems.