Overview of the State of Robotic Machining: Current Situation and Future Potential

Abstract

Nowadays industrial robots are an appropriate technology for developing flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems which contribute to perform automatically operation such as milling, cutting, drilling, grinding, deburring and polishing. Machining robots symbolize a cost-saving and flexible alternative compared to conventional CNC machines which are the restricted working area and produced shape limitations. The improvement of individual elements and development of new devices has caused a perception change about the use of industrial robots to perform machining operations. The approach to this research was to analyze technical barriers of individual components that it was broken-down as well as full improving the system. This document is intended to provide technical constraints, current technology and future potential researches about robotic machining.