Research Of Transition Manipulator Based On Flexible Traction

Highway guardrail plays an important role on the protection of road safety. With the rapid development of China's highway, the application volume of highway guardrail is rosing sharply. Contrary to the defect of relying on manually handling, lowly transport efficiency and accidents happening easily when transport highway guardrail plate, transition manipulator is developed in this article. This transition manipulator can transport and flip the highway guardrail instead of manually handling, so it can improve efficiency greatly.According to the working conditions, existing highway guardrail automatic production line of Weifang East Steel Pipe factory is analyzed. The gantry rack transition manipulator, which takes the wire rope as a transmission device, cylindrical rails as a guide, cylinder as transport lift drive device, is identified and the overall structure of transition manipulator is designed.By analyzing the working principle of transition manipulator and the workpiece shape, this article use SolidWorks 3D modeling software to make solid model on the manipulator's gripper moving parts, lift parts, beams and support parts, use CosmosWorks to make static analysis for the major forced components such as the handling gripper.By detailed analysis and calculation, flexible transmission parts parameters of transition manipulator is selected, control system is established.The control system takes MCU as control core, inverter-controlled induction motor as a power source for horizontal movement, cylinder as the Lifting handling power components;Setting parameter list of frequency converter in the practical application is showed and the corresponding control software of transition manipulator is designed. The experimental simulation system which for experimental studying of highway guardrail handling robot is constructed.By analyzing the soft:parts' action process when the handling robot move under load, the corresponding experimental data curves is Obtained.The experiments show that the system is feasible.Through the analysis and study, transition manipulator is developed and the hardware and software of control system is debugged.The corresponding experimental study is carried out to achieve the automation of highway guardrail plate handling palletizing process.