Using robotics for complex furniture fatigue tests

Furniture companies need to satisfy specific standards to ensure a high degree of quality and safety on their products. In order to do so, manufacturers send their products to mechatronic laboratories where specific machinery is used to perform a variety of tests. The aim of fatigue tests is to check for failures in design or physical problems by repeating the normal use of the product a number of cycles defined in a standard. This specific testing machinery is not suitable when complex trajectories including curves are needed to perform the tests as it happens when dealing with opening and closing mechanisms of furniture elements such as sofa beds, relax armchairs or bed handrails. The proposed method uses robotics and custom software solutions to allow companies to perform these tests in their own factory reducing the training required by operators.

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).