AUTOMATED ROBOTIC COMPLEX BASEDON UNIVERSAL HORIZONTAL MILLING MACHINE
The article presents a methodology for creating a robotic complex based on a deeply modernized universal horizontal milling machine. The purpose of introducing such a complex at a machine-building enterprise is to integrate obsolete equipment into a modern highly automated production with digital control. The robotic complex, in addition to the machine tool, which has undergone deep modernization, includes a transport-storage system and an industrial robot. A deep modernization of the milling machine consisted in the implementation on its basis of a machine tool with numerical control, including the use of independent linear drives along each coordinate axis. The main drive, designed on the basis of a frequency-controlled asynchronous electric motor, was supplemented with an automatic gearbox to expand the control range. To further expand the technological capabilities of the modernized machine, a mechatronic module was developed in the form of a six-spindle head. The design and graphic parts of the project are implemented using automated systems: Matlab, Autodesk Inventor, COMPAS-3D and Ansys. The graphic part of the project is implemented in the form of 2D-drawings and 3D-models.