In the past years within the steel industry a growing emphasis has been put on fully automatic production lines with a high degree of reliability. The main challenge in de- signing of these systems is to foster the production process efficiency while improving operators working condition and maintaining the same proper safety level. The CESAR project aims at elaborating a Reference Technology Platform for the cost effective development and validation of safety related embedded systems. In the CESAR project Danieli Automation SpA, in collaboration with the University of Bologna and University of Trieste, has put focus on the development process of a safety system for steel industry robotic applications. In this paper the achieved results related to the exploiteness and usability of the RTP during the development process are reported
In this paper it is shown how the "Zero Operator" concept on the casting floor has been reached by adoption of a standard 6 axis industrial anthropomorphic robot coupled with the most innovative machine vision technology. This has been achieved by automating all the operations related to the ladle and tundish activities, including shroud manipulation, powder addition, ladle nozzle identification, nozzle opening by lancing, temperature measurement and chemical sampling. Q-Robot CAST family products are the result of the successful alliance between industrial robotics and the most advanced technology in process automation. This led, for each production area, to the introduction of flexible automation in dangerous places, even where some degree of human intervention is still necessary. By using anthropomorphic robots, human operators can be reassigned to safer environments. Furthermore, robots are suited to deal with repetitive and labor intensive tasks thus guaranteeing a high process quality.
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