ROBOTIC PAINTING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a robotic painting apparatus which further reduces the size of a paint booth by eliminating the need for a linear rail system to translate the robots to a desired position and orientation.SOLUTION: A robotic apparatus for painting a workpiece includes a redundant axis robot for use in a robotic painting system. The redundant axis of rotation provides the robot arm with additional flexibility in avoiding obstacles and reaching an interior of the workpiece to apply paint to the workpiece. The robotic apparatus could be a seven-axis robot arm, or a five-axis parallel link panel opener robot arm for opening and/or closing the panel. The robot arms are mounted on at least one vertically oriented column adjacent to a path of travel of the workpiece through a painting booth. The robot arms can be mounted on a common base.