Abstract
Low-cost and multifunctional automation technologies are still indispensable to industry today for the enhancement of cost competitiveness. This study focuses on the analysis of human dexterousness to develop new automation methods, because workers often find simpler work methods by task learning and the methods can be a clue to low-cost automation. This study presents a new "Station-less Assembly System" in which component parts are directly assembled by base parts moving on a belt conveyor without positioning. This paper first quantifies the remarkable characteristics of the human manual system, and next, based on the analysis, describes the new automation system that introduces a force-changeable gripper and human assembly algorithms.
