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COMPRESSED AIR HYBRID IFIA BEST INVENTION March 2019 IFIA Mag azine

DRIVE ROBOT WINS IFIA MEDAL WINNERS IN IEI &

AWARD IN IEI 2018 WIIF 2018

Mr. Zhang Weidong from China won IFIA Best In- IFIA’s Best Invention Medal was awarded to a group
vention Medal for “Electric/Compressed Air Hybrid of Thai inventors for Moisture Monitoring System in
Drive Robot” during the 10th International Exhibi- Transmission System Equipment during the award
tion of Inventions organized from September 13th ceremony of the 10th International Exhibition of
to 15th 2018 in Foshan, China. Inventions organized from September 13th to 15th
2018 in Foshan, China.
Electric/Compressed Air Hybrid Drive Robot com-
bines compressed air and servomotor hybrid mode Generally, in the areas of high moisture, flashovers
as major driver. It has a built-in pneumatic balanc- will be occurred when insulators are dirty, covered
ing device to automatically balance weight of work by dust. So, the dust is becoming a conductor which
pieces based on auto weighing. Also, it is supported electron can jump via the dust. Flashover’s effect
with a low power servomotor for precise positioning cause the electric system unstable and decrease
vertically. The servomotor is 450W and can save 40% lifetime of circuit breakers because Re-Closer relay
electricity. function will repeat until the dust and moisture were
cleaned.
Compressed air/Electric hybrid and integrated as-
sembly structure greatly saves electric energy. Com- Design
pared with traditional pinion-and-rack-transmitted The Moisture Monitoring System in transmission
robots, pneumatic balancing structure supported equipment applies Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) as Ter-
by small servomotor for positioning greatly reduces minal Unit collecting data from high voltage post &
rigid impulses to transmitting mechanism, which storing real-time data, historical data on cloud serv-
greatly increases service life of robots. Compared er, real-time monitoring via website and automati-
with non-standard manufacturing and lathe weld- cally send the alarm via communication applications
ing processes, the new modular structure improves (e.g. Line Application, WhatsApp, WeChat etc.) and
robot-manufacturing efficiency and greatly short- E-mail.
ens its manufacturing cycle. The paintless aluminum
surface treatment also reduces pollution to environ- Applications
ment.
• Real-Time monitoring dusts and moisture in the
area of about 78 square kilometers
The compressed air/electric hybrid robots have been • Fault alarm via Communication Application, E-
used in manufacturing of Q5 of VW and Crossover of mail, etc.
Ford. Multinational company Faurecia Ningbo and • Collecting data and historical data on Cloud Server
Changchun Factory have put them into use and will • Preventing fault before occurred by Predicting
start to use also in its Tianjing and Shanghai Anting from analytic historical Data
Factory. • Supporting for AI deep learning and Big Data

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