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Drilling the hole through FANUC

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Chang Thriving

Hell everyone!

I have been given a special task for working on an application which is involving the tapping and drilling of holes. 

The spindle motor is already mounted over the 6th axis of its arm and now I am looking for answer whether any1 has done such an experiment before or not?

I thought of posting my query here as many experts are here and share views and ideas.

Until now, I am able to outfit robot's arm with force sensor from ATI. The idea of my work is that I am using the force sensor for maintenance of constant force while drilling hte holes.

Put in your ideas please. Thank You

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    Laurence Price
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    Dear Chang Thriving,

    I have explored this before, however i discovered that the nature of the 6th axis of the robot is not going to give the accuracy level that is needed. It is depending on the nature of application and if you have to put the hole in same location each and every time then your robot will get itself to same position each time. 

    However, if you are feeding the robot all positional offsets which are varying among parts then you might not be able to get happy with results. Moreover, the feed-rates are tapped and if it was me, i would have considered using the tapping chuck through an adjustable clutch with an auto reverse. You can also try the rigid tap along with robot but it may become a headache for you.

    Good luck

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