Industrial Robot Simulation for Faster, More Accurate Robots

As industrial robot arms get lighter and faster, structural deflection, gear backlash, joint loads, and vibration start to govern positioning accuracy, and traditional kinematics cannot predict them. This white paper shows how MSC Adams multibody dynamics simulation models the full robot mechanism before prototyping, so you can raise operating speed without losing positioning accuracy.

What Adams models that kinematics misses

• Flexible-body arm deflection through Adams Flex, ViewFlex, and FE Part
• Gear backlash, rattle, and tooth contact forces through Adams Machinery and the Gear AT plugin
• Joint loads and motor sizing on lightweighted components, early enough to act on
• Collision forces for collaborative robot safety
• Natural frequency and resonance, to keep operating speed away from system modes
• Control algorithm co-simulation with MATLAB Simulink or Easy5