Robotics competitions stimulate the next generation of cutting edge robotics solutions and innovative technologies. The World Robot Summit (WRS) Industrial Assembly challenge posed a key research challenge: how to develop adaptive industrial assembly robots. The overall goal is to develop robots where minimal hardware or software changes are required to manufacture a new or altered product. This will minimise waste and allow the industry to move towards a far more flexible approach to manufacturing; this will provide exciting new technologies for the manufacturing industry and support many new business models and approaches. In this paper, we present an approach where general-purpose grippers and adaptive control approaches have been developed to move towards this research goal. These approaches enable highly flexible and adaptive assembly of a belt drive system. The abilities of this approach were demonstrated by taking part in the WRS Industrial Assembly Challenge. We achieved second place in the kitting challenge and second place in the adaptive manufacturing challenge and were presented with the Innovation Award.

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灵活的自适应工业装配：通过竞争推动创新

机器人竞赛促进了下一代尖端机器人解决方案和创新技术的发展。世界机器人峰会（WRS）工业装配挑战赛提出了一项关键的研究挑战：如何开发自适应工业装配机器人。总体目标是开发机器人，从而只需最少的硬件或软件更改即可制造新的或更改的产品。这将最大程度地减少浪费，并使行业朝着更加灵活的制造方式迈进；这将为制造业提供令人兴奋的新技术，并支持许多新的商业模式和方法。在本文中，我们提出了一种方法，其中通用抓手和自适应控制方法已被开发以朝着该研究目标发展。这些方法可以实现皮带传动系统的高度灵活和自适应的组装。参加WRS工业装配挑战赛证明了这种方法的能力。我们在装备挑战赛中获得第二名，在适应性制造挑战赛中获得第二名，并获得了创新奖。