Industrial robots system solutions for Industry 4.0

Industrial robots have become increasingly prevalent in industrial environments. You can find them in diverse industries ranging from welding robots in the automotive sector to warehouses to optimize logistics. There are several motivations for the manufacturing industry to consider industrial robots: Production cost is a rising factor while prices for robots keep falling. Production quality and precisely repeatable processes are essential, and dirty and dangerous actions are made for industrial robots to relieve human workers from working in these environments. The main building blocks of industrial robots are,

• the controller that allows for controlling the robot’s components and enabling the monitoring of its environment,
• the manipulator (e.g., robot’s arm) that operates on actual objects and
• sensors providing information to the controller on position, speed, but also the surrounding environment.

Infineon’s components and system solutions are well suited for industrial robots as a whole. Power electronic components, such as IGBTs and CoolSIC™ MOSFETs, including fitting EiceDRIVER™ gate driver solutions across various power ranges, support a wide range of robotic payloads. CoolMOS™ and CoolSIC™ MOSFETs, and auxiliary power supply solutions such as CoolSET™ enable power management. PSoC® microcontrollers, with their wide range of functionality, are applicable for system control and are also equipped with peripherals to enable connectivity via CAN, USB, or Wi-Fi based on the AIROC™ Wi-Fi & Combos offering. They are also well suited to interface with XENSIV™ sensors to sense the robot’s surroundings. Our range of external memory solutions for code storage and data logging enables the highest reliability, performance, and safety standards. Finally, responding to a growing focus on security, Infineon offers OPTIGA™ Trust hardware security solutions based on a high-end security controller optimized for connected devices. It provides highly flexible, high-performance, secured access to the cloud.