Industrial Robotics Solutions
Industrial robotics is becoming smarter, collaborative, and better positioned to handle complex tasks on the factory floor, with and without human intervention.
Mobile Robotics Solutions
The evolving smart factory is deploying mobile robotics alongside humans at an accelerating pace. To ensure safety, productivity, and longevity in the smart factory of the future, this mobile robotic workforce must increasingly comprehend and interact with its environment and human colleagues.
Analog Devices offers high-performing perception sensing solutions that enable real-time awareness of the robotic system, including simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for best-in-class safe navigation of AMRs (autonomous mobile robots), AGVs (automated guided vehicles), and cobots (collaborative robots) in factories and warehouses. Our mobile robotics innovations include more compact, safe, and energy efficient servo drives that reduce robot size and power consumption, resulting in more productive, lower emissions factories. Our technologies also include optical and magnetic encoders for joint rotation and angular position feedback.
Value and Benefits
Material handling processes within the factory are becoming smarter and more flexible using AMRs. Leveraging our MEMS sensing, intelligent processing, 3D time-of-flight (ToF) and machine learning technology, AMRs are safely and autonomously moving materials without the need for physical guides or markers. Our Power by Linear™ portfolio of high-performance power management solutions for power conversion as well as battery management address the challenge of efficient battery management, critical to mobile robots to maximize use between charging. Wheel drive solutions are designed to deliver precise motion control, optimized for accuracy and efficiency of movement.
Mounted (Fixed) Robotics Solutions
Mounted (fixed) robotics, or multi-axis systems, incorporate high-performance technologies to support the end system solution used in modern manufacturing installations. Examples of mounted robots include cobots, articulated robots, SCARA, delta robots, and many other CNC machines which may be rail mounted, wall mounted, floor mounted, or body mounted.
Analog Devices’ mounted robotics portfolio is backed by decades of innovation and domain expertise that enables more intelligent and flexible robots and cobots, step-changing productivity and efficiency, and modular designs from sensors to cloud.
Value and Benefits
Personalization is driving the need for flexibility in manufacturing systems, requiring fast reconfiguration to account for real-time changes in product mix, output volume, or process sequence. We offer full systems encompassing multiple technologies for subsystem elements from motor drive and servo systems to sensing and connectivity. With the aid of strong partner collaboration, we are enabling our technologies beyond silicon by embracing system services, applications software, firmware, and much more.
