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MARCH 2023 Aotai Electric Co.,LTD

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COLLABORATIVE ROBOT, YOUR

BEST WELDING ASSISTANT
As the main replacement for labor workers, the industrial robot has been massively
applied in welding, transferring, docking, palletizing, spraying, and other industries in
the era of Industry 4.0. The Dark Factory comes true thanks to the industrial robot.
However, the industrial robot can not be massively applied in many light industries and
small-batch manufacturing scenarios due to its poor flexibility, high price, difficult
programming, high mastering difficulty, operation safety, and other problems. This essay
will introduce you to a new form of robot, which enjoys a similar appearance and ability
close to the industrial robot with additional unique advantages. This kind of robot is
called a collaborative robot.

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COBOT, WELDING COBOT, AND COBOT WELDING
1.1 What Is Cobot?
A collaborative robot also called cobot for short, product performance and extensive application
whose name implies that the collaborative robot fields.
can cooperate with people to bring the robot's
efficiency and people's wisdom into full play. These
platforms are affordable and can work with people
and other cobots. Moreover, with a small footprint,
you can place the cobot anywhere in your shop and
use them for a variety of industrial applications.
Cobot not only removes the obstacles of human-ro-
bot cooperation but also opens a new era of indus-
trial robot development with its groundbreaking

1.2 What Is Welding Cobot?

A welding cobot belongs to collaborative robots.
They’ve become popular with all sizes of opera-
tions as they provide for higher throughput,
increased repeatability, and without compromis-
ing on quality. Although applying industrial robots
in welding is common across the manufacturing
industry, these platforms are bulky, expensive to
install, and require extensive programming for
effective operation. A cobot welding system is a
compact solution ideal for the welding operations
required on different workpieces. Fabricators can
automate their welding processes for low-vol-
ume, high-mix applications using a welding
cobot.

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1.3 Why Choose Cobot Welding?

Cobot enjoys safe and reliable, high-cost performance,
easy to operate, small occupied space, and other
advantages, and has been gradually applied in the
welding field. Cobot welding system enjoys fast welding
in the case of the workpiece with multiple kinds and
small batches because of its rapid building block
programming. Meanwhile, more and more industries
start to adopt cobot welding systems thanks to their
stable welding quality, improved labor condition,
increased safety, and other features.

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COBOT VS. INDUSTRIAL ROBOT
2.1 Difference
(1) Cobot is easy to use. Users can quickly and consumption than traditional welding robots
conveniently teach the welding track to the cobot because of its small overall design. Thus, the
through the drag-to-teach. This greatly increases user spends less on the actual application.
implementation efficiency. Even under the (6) While industrial robots were better suited to
requirement of a complicated welding track, the performing the same task over and over, cobots
cobot also enjoys easy and convenient program- can be applied to various welding tasks in a
ming. single day. This attribute makes them a winning
(2) Cobots don’t require experienced robot ticket in a world where demands for customiza-
technicians to manage them. They’re specifically tion and short lead times are growing.
designed for non-technical staff. It can be taught Cobot occupies a happy medium between
again and redeployed when a new part is manual welders and industrial robotics. They can
assigned. Cobots have a much faster deployment be an excellent addition to an understaffed
time than industrial robots since they don’t require welding team to take on more repetitive tasks.
the same complex code. Thanks to this, welders have more time to deal
(3) Cobot can be easily installed and deployed with value-added tasks.
owing to its extremely low ratio of load and
weight, high degree of lightweight, and high
flexibility. That's why it can easily replace profes-
sional welders to finish the job. Meanwhile, the
cobot can be mounted on a mobile platform also
owing to its low ratio of load and weight so as to
realize rapid welding of parts with multiple types
and small batches.
(4) Cobot enjoys a higher opening degree of
interfaces than traditional industrial welding
robots, which makes it easy to cooperate with
other equipment to achieve laser locating of
welding, visual lead, automatic welds tracking,
welding along the complicated path, welding
quality test, and other functions, so as to meet
customer's requirements to intelligent welding.
(5) Cobot enjoys far lower operation energy

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2.2 Benefits of Cobot

(1)Lightweight: easy to control, improved safety operators and non-technical people.

(2)Flexible deployment: Cobot enjoys small size and
can be mounted in a place where industrial robot can't,
such as a platform and cart
(3)Safe: Cobots have extra sensors and features that
reduce the risk of forceful contact-related injury.
(4)Human-robot cooperation: Cobot enjoys sensitive
force feedback characteristics. It will immediately stop
when the set force is reached. There is no need to
install a protective fence after risk assessment so that
people can cooperate with the cobot.
(5)Easy programming: It's quite easy to conduct
programming and debugging for some ordinary
(6)Low cost for use: Efficient use of materials and
consumables for each weld operation, low power
consumption of cobot body, and barely need no cost
input for maintaining
(7)Increased throughput for repetitive welding jobs that
increases profitability
(8)Consistent quality welds are not always possible if
welders become fatigued
(9)Frees up your welders to focus on value-added
tasks while the cobot handles other mundane and
repetitive jobs

2.3 Disadvantages of Cobot

VS
Cobot Industrial Robot
Small Size Big
Fast Speed Much faster
High Efficiency Much higher
Long Arm reach range Much longer
Developing Welding process package Matured

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THE APPLICATIONS OF COBOT WELDING
Wherever you need to produce welded parts, a system is flexible enough to adapt to any weld-
cobot welder can help increase productivity and ing operation type and professional welders can
maximize the efficiency of each shift. teach the robot the exact execution for each
When speed and precision are significant to the weld, it can increase production capacity while
success of a workpiece, a welding cobot is the maintaining joint integrity.
best option available to SMEs. Because the
Any industry that commonly employs welders can take advantage of cobot welders. This includes metals industries
and adjacent sectors. Examples include:

High-Mix Job Shops Repair & Part Resurfacing & General Metals
Remanufacturing Reconditioning

Mechanical Engineer- Steel Fabrication & Vehicle Construction & Sheet Metal
ing & Pipe Shops Metal construction Construction Machinery Processing

Agricultural Machines
Railbound Vehicles Training & Educational
& Attachments
A cobot welding platform can assist you in getting a high-quality weld executed repeatedly and consistently in
almost every application where you need it. The Cobot welding solutions bring cost benefits and time savings in
several industries. If you want a cobot to perform as your welding partner, the Aotai cobot welding system is your
best choice.

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AOTAI COBOT WELDING SYSTEM
Aotai cobot can seamlessly combine with corollary
equipment through a welding process package to
rapidly realize all kinds of welding applications. Users
can select optional kits according to the requirements
to build their own welding system.
4.1Components of a Cobot Welding System
4.2 Cobot body
Apart from the robot hardware and weld system, a
cobot welder also has additional components to
perform the function properly:
(1)The cobot itself
(2)The welding system, which includes the power
supply, wire feeder, cables, housing, and cooling
systems
4.3 Welding Process Package
4.3.1 Diversified Compatibility and Strong Adaptability
The welding process package supports multi-path
digital/analog signals and DeviceNet controlling, which
can not only rapidly set voltage/current curve, baud
rate, switch signal, and other parameters, but also
Apart from the robot hardware and weld system, a
cobot welder also has additional components to
perform the function properly:
(1)The cobot itself
(2)The welding system, which includes the power
supply, wire feeder, cables, housing, and cooling
systems
(3)The welding torch (or weld effector) that sits at the
end of the cobot arm
(4)Ancillary tooling and sensors for improved process
control and operational safety
(5)Teach pendant or operator control software for
interacting with the welding cobot
(3)The welding torch (or weld effector) that sits at the
end of the cobot arm
(4)Ancillary tooling and sensors for improved process
control and operational safety
(5)Teach pendant or operator control software for
interacting with the welding cobot
realize arc striking, arc striking detection, manual
feed/retract wire, gas test, and other direct control. It is
suitable for most arc welding machines and laser
welding machines.
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4.3.2 Graphical Interface, Easy to Master

The primary principle of cobot

design is easy to use. Based on
the industrial leading full-track
reappearing drag-to-teach
technology, users can drag the
arm of the cobot to rapidly
create position locations or
track. Then, it generates all
kinds of needed welding
programs through simple
graphical programming. It can
easily complete setting welding
machine types and parameters,
teaching programming, and
other operations.

4.3.3 Four Five Oscillating Modes, Suitable for More Welding Scenarios

In addition, voltage and current can

be set according to plate thickness
and welding pass during welding so
as to obtain better welding quality.

In addition, voltage and current can

be set according to plate thickness
and welding pass during welding so
as to obtain better welding quality.

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4.3.4 All-round Human-robot Cooperation to Ensure Safety and Efficiency

The welding process package provides a high-sensitivity collision-detecting function. The system will stop immedi-
ately when the cobot or end mechanism accidentally collide with people or obstacles, which can adequately
guarantee the security of people and equipment.

4.3.5 Customizing various welding scenarios with no material restrictions

Cobot Laser Welding The cobot welding process package

supports arc welding or laser welding and
provides multiple welding modes and
algorithm supports. Users can customize
according to different metal materials and
application scenarios. Whether for carbon
steel, stainless steel, copper or aluminum
welding, or longitudinal or girth seam
welding, it can keep welds beautiful without
deformation.

4.3.6 Providing call waiting function for double station to save time and double welding efficiency

The automated welding software package ensures time-saving and efficient welding performance. It ensures a
fast welding process by avoiding robotic welding downtime.

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COBOT AR10 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
Cobot
Model AR10
Weight 40 kg
Maximum Payload 10 kg
Working Radius 1300 mm
Max Reach 1525 mm
Rated Voltage DC48V
Maximum Speed of TCP 4 m/s
J1 ±360°
J2 ±360°
Joint Ranges J3 ±160°
J4 ±360°
J5 ±360°
J6 ±360°
J1/J2 120°/s
Maximum Speed of Joints
J3/J4/J5/J6 180°/s
DI/DO/AI 2
End-Effector I/O Interface
AO 0
Communication Interface Communication RS485; Devicenet
Communication Interface DI 16
DO/DI 16
Controller I/O AI/AO 2
ABZ Incremental Encoder 1
Repeatability ±0.03 mm
Communication TCP/IP, Modbus, Wi-Fi
IP Rating IP54
Temperature 0℃-45℃
Power 350W
Materials Aluminum alloy, ABS plastic

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SUMMARY
While cobots can streamline a wide variety of industrial operations, cobots are intended to work in conjunction
with humans. Combining with years of experience in welding, Aotai has launched efficient, easy-to-use, and
safe cobot welding solutions that lay a solid foundation for later broadening the application scenarios of
automatic welding and empowering customers to realize intelligent and flexible welding. With an Aotai cobot
Welding System, you will benefit from: A streamlined welding process executed precisely according to your
operated defined weld operations; Increased throughput during every shift while eliminating quality issues for
reduced rework; A cost-effective automation solution that drives up revenues, and is easy to use without the
need to learn to program; A robust support network with Aotai welding experts available to guide you through
the setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting processes.
Aotai cobot welding system focuses on achieving the automation of multi-kind and small-batch welding
missions, increasing production capacity, releasing labor, stabling product quality, optimizing the welding
operation environment, and pushing the business transformation of the manufacturing enterprise. Moreover,
the Aotai cobots welding system enables you to free up your resources to focus on high-value tasks by taking
care of the repetitive, mundane operations in your shop. If you are interested in the Aotai cobot welding
system, please contact us for more detailed information without any hesitation.

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