{"id":106065,"date":"2020-04-25T19:03:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T02:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/an-algorithm-to-enhance-the-robotic-assembly-of-customized-products"},"modified":"2020-04-25T19:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T02:03:59","slug":"an-algorithm-to-enhance-the-robotic-assembly-of-customized-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/an-algorithm-to-enhance-the-robotic-assembly-of-customized-products","title":{"rendered":"An algorithm to enhance the robotic assembly of customized products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XQhXGJbUURE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robots could soon assist humans in a variety of fields, including in manufacturing and industrial settings. A robotic system that can automatically assemble customized products may be particularly desirable for manufacturers, as it could significantly decrease the time and effort necessary to produce a variety of products.<\/p>\n<p>To work most effectively, such a robot should integrate an assembly planner, a component that plans the sequence of movements and actions that a robot should perform to manufacture a specific product. Developing an assembly planner that can rapidly plan the sequences of movements necessary to produce different customized products, however, has so far proved to be highly challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have recently developed an algorithm that can transfer knowledge acquired by a robot while assembling products in the past to the assembly of new items. This algorithm, presented in <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/9028142\">a paper published in <i>IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters<\/i><\/a>, can ultimately reduce the amount of time required by an assembly planner to come up with action sequences for the manufacturing of new customized products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots could soon assist humans in a variety of fields, including in manufacturing and industrial settings. A robotic system that can automatically assemble customized products may be particularly desirable for manufacturers, as it could significantly decrease the time and effort necessary to produce a variety of products. To work most effectively, such a robot should [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}