Award of Robot Offline Programming, Monitoring and Control System to INSPHERE Ltd by University of Sheffield
University Of Sheffield · Awarded contract
AwardedAward of Robot Offline Programming, Monitoring and Control System to INSPHERE Ltd by University of Sheffield
Awarded 06 Dec 2021
Awarded06 Dec 2021
Value£180,000.00
SupplierINSPHERE Ltd
AgencyUniversity Of Sheffield
RegionYorkshire and The Humber
CategoryResearch & Development
Ended 2y 11mo ago1y 12mo term
Awarded 6 Dec 2021Expired 5 Dec 2023
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University Of Sheffield awarded a contract to INSPHERE Ltd for a Robot Offline Programming, Monitoring and Control System on behalf of the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, South Yorkshire.
The system is required to measure the accuracy of multiple targets simultaneously on a multiple degree of freedom robot mounted on a gantry system, improve robot path accuracy through measure and correct methodology, stream data such as robot positions to an external system for Digital twin activities, and visualise robot path accuracy by comparison of programmed paths versus actual.
The contract value is £180,000.
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