DENSO designed and tested its robotic arms by using NI's measurement tools

DENSO Robotics has designed and tested robotic arms by effectively using LabVIEW and other test tools from National Instruments.

The highlighted features of LabVIEW for robotic application includes library of graphical functions for robot design and offers single programming environment for robot control, machine vision, measurements and HMI.

The ImagingLab Robotics library for DENSO works with LabVIEW real-time systems that combines LabVIEW graphical programming with the power of a real-time operating system, to build real-time applications. The library also works with NI smart cameras for integrated vision-guided robotics and NI data acquisition hardware for the measurement of both simple and high sophisticated applications.

"LabVIEW is a preferred application development environment for many of the world's engineers and scientists," said Toyohiko Ito, director at DENSO WAVE, a DENSO group company that develops and manufactures industrial robots. "Encouraging customers to use LabVIEW to control DENSO robots will help increase their efficiency and reduce their time to market."

"We used LabVIEW to integrate a DENSO VS-6577 robot with spectral analyzers into a fully automated analytical test station without the need to learn another robotics programming language," said Dylan Jones, principal scientist at Genzyme. "The ImagingLab Robotics Library for DENSO was an off-the-shelf solution for integrating the robotic arm. Conservatively, we estimate that with this test station we will achieve a tenfold increase in analytical throughput."

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