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ASTM International’s robotics, automation, and autonomous methods committee (F45) is in search of participation within the improvement of proposed requirements for testing and recording meeting capabilities of robotic methods.
According to ASTM member Kenny Kimble, a mechanical engineer with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the proposed requirements (WK87213 and WK87214) will present a dependable and repeatable means for testing the meeting capabilities of robotic methods. The proposed requirements additionally embrace a follow for recording the testing setup and configuration in order that customers can create and evaluate take a look at outcomes throughout the robotics group.
“The proposed standards will be most useful to robotics research labs, both academic and industry-based, that are regularly working with manufacturing assembly operations,” stated Kimble. “Manufacturers can use the standards to benchmark robot performance as well as compare results to encourage innovation and solve manufacturing problems.”
Kimble notes that the duty group is especially searching for participation from the manufacturing business within the improvement of those requirements.
“Manufacturers deal directly with the current problems involved in robot assembly,” says Kimble. “They are also some of the most primary users of the already-available NIST assembly test boards referenced in the proposed standards.”
ASTM welcomes participation within the improvement of its requirements.
The F45 committee has been busy in 2023. It began off the yr by asserting work on an ordinary to judge an finish effector’s grasp power. ASTM stated the WK83863 customary will higher decide an finish effector’s capabilities like limits of payload dimension and resistance to tug and push forces throughout operation.
It then launched a brand new legged robotics subcommittee that’s specializing in take a look at and efficiency requirements. The legged robotics subcommittee has already proposed a new take a look at methodology for disturbance rejection testing of legged robotics.
Aaron Prather, director of ASTM’s robotics & autonomous methods applications, was a visitor on The Robot Report Podcast in February 2023. He mentioned the present state of robotic requirements at ASTM, particularly with Committee F45, and talked about among the pitfalls that younger robotics firms can journey over when making an attempt to promote their options to a big Fortune 500 firm like FedEx, for which he served as senior technical advisor for a few years. You can hearken to that podcast episode beneath. The interview with Prather begins on the 19:20 mark.