December 6, 2019 Source: Jiangsu Boshi Technology

n the era of Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence has penetrated into every aspect of people's lives, and industrial robots can be seen everywhere in industrial production. As an important part of robots, robotic arms can help or replace people to perform a single heavy task.

The robot arm is a typical cantilever beam structure. Its own weight will have a significant impact on the performance of the robot arm. In addition, some pipelines, cooling equipment, stroke positioning equipment, etc. are also installed on it. The robot arm needs to accurately move the gripper to the specified position while under the load and grasping the maximum weight of the workpiece during operation. Therefore, the application of carbon fiber robotic arms is particularly necessary.

Carbon fiber robotic arm

The specific gravity of carbon fiber is only 1.7g / cm3, and the density of commonly used metal materials aluminum and steel is 2.7g / cm3 and 7.85g / cm3, respectively, so the carbon fiber robotic arm is currently the lightest of different material mechanical arms. In lightweighting, carbon fiber plays an important role, not only reducing the self-weight of the robot arm, but also ensuring that the robot arm can better achieve static and dynamic performance.

In addition to being lightweight, the mechanical properties of carbon fiber manipulators are also excellent. The tensile strength of carbon fiber can reach more than 3000Mpa. At the same time, the load bearing performance is good, and no breaks and strains will occur. The carbon fiber robotic arm is also very resistant to fatigue. It can maintain good toughness and elasticity during long-term operations. Compared with traditional metal materials, it does not experience creep. It can maintain the working accuracy of the robotic arm and ensure product quality. Reduce rework rates.