OPTIMAL LOCATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT USED IN FORGE APPLICATIONS.

Industrial robots are used especially in sectors where the human body is in danger or is working in extreme conditions. One of these sectors is the forges sector where the manipulating objects are hot, and the vibrations and noise are big. The cooling of gripper and robot is realized passively in the movement phase, when no hot work piece is manipulated. So, the trajectory of movement is important and also the optimum position of robot with respect to the application positions. The proposed paper is dealing with the subject of moving the base of robot with respect to the application points so that an objective function representing the accumulated heat during a cycle to be minimum. A multi-criteria optimization approach is the best solution in this case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]