Robot calibration
Robot calibration
Robot calibration is the process of identifying the real geometrical parameters in the kinematic structure of an industrial robot, such as the relative position of joint links in the robot. Robot calibration improves accuracy of robots programmed offline (Offline Programming).
Robot calibration can be accomplished with RoboDK in less than 20 minutes. Easily generate robot programs offline once with RoboDK's offline programming tools.
RoboDK calibration key features
Fully Automated generation of measurements and acquisition
Fully Automated collision avoidance
RoboDK API allows you to customize the calibration workspace
Works with any 3D or 6D measurement system
Calibrate any robot with up to 30 parameters
Robot accuracy can be improved by a factor of 10
Over 500 robots from 50 manufacturers supported
Easily run ISO9283 performance tests
Compare accuracy with ballbar accuracy tests
No need to filter milling programs with RoboDK
Once the robot is calibrated it is also very easy to compare the accuracy before and after calibration with a ballbar test or an ISO 9283 test (Robot Performance Analysis). You can also run customized path accuracy, speed and acceleration tests and obtain a detailed report.
Are you a robot manufacturer? We can easily integrate robot calibration for your robots.
The following videos show the robot calibration procedure with RoboDK using a C-Track stereocamera from Creaform and a Faro laser tracker. A KUKA KR 6 R700 robot and a Fanuc LR Mate 200iC are calibrated respectively with these measurement systems, improving the accuracy by a factor of 8.
These tests were performed at CoRo laboratory.
