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Abstract

At present, the ingots from the fire refined mold casting wheel are taken and arranged manually to make the fire refined bundles. The tasks associated to this procedure are characterized by the exposure to the personnel to harsh environmental conditions. In the medium and long term, this could generate serious occupational diseases to the operators in charge of developing this task. Due to the above, a robot system and method have been developed to automate fire refined bundling. The robotic system is composed mainly of a robotic manipulator of at least 5 degrees of freedom (1) which is mounted on a fixed and/or mobile system (2) and provided with a gripping mechanism (3) to take, manipulate and release an ingot (4) for fire refined bundling (5). In this regard, most of the problems associated to the safety of the people and to the productivity of the current manual process are eliminated.

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