Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Archimedes Drive (Archimedes Drive: Driving Innovation in the Robotics Industry)
Reporting period: 2022-12-01 to 2023-11-30
IMSystems has created the Archimedes Drive (AD), a proprietary, patented, and revolutionary speed reducer based on smooth, rolling contact by cylinders that solves the problems of existing speed reducers, all based on gear teeth: lack of performance for universal applicability (all axes, all robots), expensive manufacturing, lack of responsiveness, and dependency on Japanese suppliers. Our primary targeted market is the industrial robotics market. Due to their high impact on industrial productivity, robotics companies are in dire need of ultra-precise, robust, lightweight, but still affordable speed reducers. With strong partners in research, production and in the robotics industry, we have already established the right structure to set the company up for growth. With the AD, IMSystems aims to become the leader of speed reducer technologies for the global robotics market.
The development of the Archimedes Drive has reached a point where it can perform very well in industrial robotics and improve the accuracy, stiffness and noise levels of every system. To make it available for every application, improvements in the lifetime and torque density have been made, and detailed simulation packages of its internals have been developed to keep delivering reliable high quality over the upcoming years. A different general layout, enabling more applications to benefit from the advantages the Archimedes Drive has to offer, is created, and tested successfully. On top, detailing has been done to optimize the manufacturing cost of the system, allowing every robot manufacturer to build their robot in a cost-effective manner, while implementing the stiff, accurate and silent Archimedes Drive.
In depth testing and industry implementation with project partners in robotics will be executed in the second year of this project, to benefit from direct feedback on performance and implementation from the industry, while allowing these early adopters to have a head start over their competition, when it comes to the robots and automation of the future.
In depth testing and industry implementation with project partners in robotics will be executed in the second year of this project, to benefit from direct feedback on performance and implementation from the industry, while allowing these early adopters to have a head start over their competition, when it comes to the robots and automation of the future.
The EIC funded project enabled IMSystems to further improve the Archimedes Drive technology reliability and torque density. More testing and analysis activities will be executed in the near future to further validate all the latest models and have even better prediction and optimization methods for the ultimate lifetime of the system. Together with partners, new assembly methods will be developed to provide fast and cost-effective delivery for current and future partners.