Durability testing of car seat heaters

The measuring system provides six measurement dimensions for forces and torques and ensures absolute accuracy. This provides the user with data about the actual forces and torques being exerted on the contact surface between the dummy and the seat. It is possible to compensate for the static forces of the dummy itself in order to prevent them from giving rise to additional dynamic forces. The robot motions are also regularly adjusted in relation to the wear on the test object. And to adapt the overall system to a different seat, it is merely necessary to redefine the Base coordinate system.

• KUKA KR 150 robot
• PC-based KUKA KR C2 robot controller, including control panel with Windows interface
• Force-torque sensor system
• System software, including the application, setup and configuration programs
• Various dummies
• Robot programming
• Commissioning

• Flexibility
  
  The flexibility of the process installed at W.E.T. Automotive Systems resulting from the use of a six-axis jointed-arm robot makes it possible to configure the system for combined operation with three different tests on three different seats at the same time. This means, for example, that the robot can complete one program at night and then switch automatically to the next program. Another example of the flexibility of the KR 150 is that when the heater in a seat being tested ceases to function, the robot automatically moves on to the next seat and resumes testing there.
  
  
  
• User-friendliness
  
  

  Basic knowledge of programming is sufficient as the system software is embedded in the robot programming. Another factor contributing to the overall user-friendliness is the fact that, after a stop, the robot can always resume motion at exactly the point where it stopped.