Realtime Robotics releases cloud-based software to accelerate design of robot cells

 Realtime Robotics, a specialist in automated collision-free motion planning, control, and optimization, has launched Resolver, a new cloud-based solution that dramatically accelerates the design and deployment of robotic workcells.

Robot path planning is traditionally a complex, time-consuming, and brittle process. In most workcells there are multiple robots in use, requiring tedious manual labor to create interference zones and interlock signals that ensure there are no collisions during the manufacturing process.

Manually validating the mechanical design, planning robot paths, determining sequencing to hit optimal cycle time targets, and defining those interlocks can take a team well over 100,000 hours for a single project.

Due to its complex nature, this often leads to failures in hitting cycle time targets, adding expensive rework to 10-15 percent of workcells.

Realtime Robotics’ Resolver works by intelligently selecting and testing potential solutions tens to thousands of times faster than any human programmer, quickly generating optimal, collision-free motion paths and interlock signals.

With Resolver, organizations can automatically discover the fastest target order – accelerating workcell design from months to days – all while decreasing engineering effort by 50 percent. Workcell cycle times are reduced, and overall throughput is increased.

 Realtime Robotics’ Resolver supports path planning with any number of robots, at any phase of the workflow, generating results in minutes. The solution requires minimal onboarding – and currently allows users to work directly within Siemens Process Simulate.Support for other leading simulation platforms will be rolled out later in the year, enabling teams to work directly within their preferred simulation tool.

Howard says: “Resolver has the computational power to generate better motion paths than human programmers in both simple and complex workcells.

“This is because Resolver searches the possibilities open to robotic arms, while humans tend to stay within the possibilities of the human arm.”

Organizations need only upload the workcell information into a new project, configure their sequencing and conditions, and execute a run. In minutes, Resolver will generate motion paths, including interlocks, with a superhuman cycle time.

The longer Resolver runs, the more options it provides, shortening the cycle time until the desired outcome is reached. The paths and interlocks can then be easily imported back into the simulation software for validation and operation.

Marco Bizjak, head of competence center digital factory and technical manager, digitalisation, at FFT, says: “Resolver eliminates the most time-consuming aspects of industrial robotics – the programming and optimization of the robots. What used to take months to accomplish can now be measured in hours.

“We believe this can be a real competitive advantage as we strive to help our customers establish the most efficient and effective manufacturing processes possible.”

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