High volume production has been a prerequisite in order to invest into automation of the manufacturing process for decades. The high cost of setup and the inflexibility of classical automation meant that low batch productions, often present in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), were dismissed as potential end user of automation technologies. In this extended abstract we present the results of the ReconCell project whose objective was to develop a new type of highly reconfigurable robot workcell for fast set-up of automated assembly processes in SMEs. The high degree of reconfigurability was achieved by the developed reconfigurable hardware and the complementary reconfigurable software, while fast set-up was achieved with technologies for fast robot programming.

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可重新配置的机器人工作单元，用于快速设置装配过程

几十年来，大批量生产一直是投资于制造过程自动化的先决条件。传统自动化的高昂设置成本和不灵活性意味着通常存在于中小型企业 (SME) 的低批量生产被视为自动化技术的潜在最终用户而被忽视。在这个扩展摘要中，我们展示了 ReconCell 项目的结果，该项目的目标是开发一种新型高度可重构的机器人工作单元，用于在 SME 中快速设置自动化装配过程。高度的可重构性是通过开发的可重构硬件和互补的可重构软件实现的，而快速设置则是通过快速机器人编程技术实现的。