With the development of globalization, domestic robots are facing challenges and opportunities. We must maintain technological innovation and leadership to ensure the correctness of technological concepts and directions.

According to third-party data reports, in 2023, ESTUN's robot shipments in the Chinese market ranked first among domestic brands. ESTUN has always adhered to system-level forward research and development, and is moving towards high-precision, heavy-load, and full-category systems. Expand and lead domestic robot brands to a new level.

System-level forward R&D platform will become the core competition

ESTUN Automation has always adhered to an independent and positive R&D strategy. Different from traditional R&D platforms, ESTUN bases all technologies on customer needs, which converts customer needs into product needs, and further transforms them into technical solutions, taking the lead in realizing the all-round layout of robot controller, servo system and body design, the autonomy rate of robot core components reaches more than 95%.

ESTUN adopts a tightly coupled product development model to accurately understand and meet users' explicit needs through technical means, while guiding users' implicit needs to bring them a better user experience. All this requires multidisciplinary collaboration to maximize the performance of each component.

Tightly coupled model competitiveness: Robot core solution

ESTUN follows all customer demand-oriented goals, continues to increase investment in robot research and development, and continuously innovates motion control technology. The new generation robot controller developed by the company has upgraded the kinematics and dynamics algorithms, and developed a series of advanced motion functions. Based on the application attributes of industrial robots, a new robot programming language is developed to support customer-specific function expansion and process secret protection. Based on customer needs and from an industry/application perspective, we develop corresponding process software packages and supporting tool software to greatly improve product ease of use.

1. Operation control system upgrade

Based on accurate model identification, learning technology and advanced motion algorithms, ESTUN provides more complete robot motion control solutions. It not only improves the performance of robots in many aspects such as speed, accuracy, jitter suppression, and collision detection sensitivity, but also provides complete solutions in complex scenarios such as multi-machine linkage, communication control, and dynamic following, so that the application scenarios of robots can be improved. It is more competitive in applications in traditional industries such as palletizing and welding, and provides strong performance and high reliability options for new energy, automobiles, 3C electronics and other industries.

2. New programming language

ESTUN's new generation robot programming language has the advantages of efficient execution, stable operation, rich function library, complete encryption protection and strong scalability. It improves the production and operation efficiency of application scenarios, realizes the secret protection of process technology, and is convenient Customers can expand and customize functions according to specific needs and industries.

3. Customized application process

Based on the characteristics of the industry/application, the process software package standardizes and packages the non-process-related parts of the debugging process as much as possible, and designs dedicated interfaces and instructions to greatly reduce the debugging difficulty for debuggers and improve debugging efficiency. The currently completed process software package covers multiple industries and application scenarios such as spot welding, gluing, welding, palletizing, stamping, woodworking, and vision.

4. Auxiliary tool software

Tool software is mainly responsible for selection and evaluation, programming, configuration, simulation, maintenance, diagnosis, secondary development and other functions in robot applications, covering the front, middle and back stages of robot applications. At present, ESTUN Robot has launched robot tool software in use including: ERLOAD (load evaluation software), ESTUNEditor (programming configuration and simulation software), ESTUNWorkstation (interface secondary development software), Autolist (bending offline programming software), Escope (monitoring software) etc.

5. Dedicated servo system

ESTUN Robot Servo relies on the domestic general platform, takes customer needs as the center, and takes energy conservation and emission reduction as the criterion to develop robot-specific servo systems in a targeted and differentiated manner, which is reflected in the planning and development of electric control cabinets: vertical integration Robot power level, robot type spectrum, overall coordination of the electric control cabinet and the main body; horizontal combination of product certification, multiple configuration product strategies, forward-level development of the electric control cabinet with the smallest model covering the entire series of robot products.

6. Ontology R&D technology

As the execution unit of the robot system, the ESTUN robot body has a mature selection and design basis, forming effective judgment standards and accelerated life testing methods. In terms of the structural design of the robotic arm, establish effective and tested dynamic analysis methods for the finite element, modal analysis and fully flexible body model of the entire robot. Through the exploration and accumulation of advanced new materials, as well as technical research on part structure topology optimization, size optimization and other technologies, an advanced lightweight design method for robot products has been established.

ESTUN Robot’s new core: full category, high precision, heavy load, scenario-based

1. Full range of robots: covering 76 models of robots ranging from 3 to 700kg

ESTUN has 76 robots with a load range of 3-700kg. It has leading customers and a large market share in the photovoltaic, lithium battery, metal processing, automobile, 3C electronics, packaging, building materials and furniture, construction machinery and other segmented industries. Based on the core automation technology, it drives robots to develop in a full-category and scenario-based direction.

2. New UNO series robots: suitable for high-precision and high-speed application scenarios

ESTUN Robotics targets leading industries such as automobiles, electronics, lithium batteries, and photovoltaics, and has defined and developed a new UNO series of products based on the pain points of high-demand key application scenarios. UNO series products are dominated by application scenarios and target full scenario coverage to overcome key process application scenarios. Combined with "Robot+", they provide complete robot solutions with high performance and multi-function, creating a new level of domestic robots.

At present, the high-precision applications of industrial robots on the market mainly involve drilling, grinding, gluing, spot welding, arc welding, laser cutting and other scenarios. Self-learning, visual control, and simulated offline programming replace teaching programming. These development directions are all for The robot pose accuracy puts forward higher requirements.ESTUN is developing a new UNO series of robots and developing an autonomous dynamics model to give the robot the ability to "intelligently" understand the real-time operating status. During the operation, it can automatically carry out the most matching trajectory planning and calculation based on various dynamics-related parameters. The operating posture gives full play to the best performance of the robot and significantly improves the robot's rhythm and motion stability. Especially in related fields with complex motion trajectories, its accuracy greatly exceeds that of traditional robots.

3. Heavy-duty robots: create precise, efficient and flexible production lines

As the application demand for heavy-duty models increases, its market growth potential is huge, helping customers further realize production line automation, improving production efficiency and product qualification rate, and improving the working environment of operators.

In response to the process needs of industries such as lithium batteries, photovoltaics, automobiles, equipment machinery, furniture and building materials, ESTUN has 10 heavy-duty robots ranging from 220 to 700kg to meet various complex scenario applications. In response to the high requirements for accuracy, motion performance and safe control capabilities, ESTUN heavy-load robots have four core technical advantages, namely multi-objective system optimization technology, error estimation and compensation algorithm, and optimal movement and optimal trajectory planning under high loads. and high-precision motion control and high-speed vibration suppression technology to meet customers’ precise and efficient manufacturing needs.

Looking at the international competitive landscape, we focus on refined applications in the Chinese market. We will continue to delve deeply into market segments, adhering to our mission of Enjoy your life from automation -Smarter Manufacturing，Greater Quality, Better Life, Greener World!

When you encounter the following scenarios, ESTUN will give you the solution.

Scenario 1: What should I do if the service life of the machinery or motor is shortened after the robot is used with super inertia?

Don’t worry! ESTUN relies on dynamic algorithms to accurately set the inertia information of the load, or after enabling automatic load identification, the control system will automatically adjust the applicable dynamic parameters, which can maximize the dynamics of the system while protecting the mechanical body from damage. performance.

Scenario 2: What should I do if the robot cannot be taught to increase the beat speed in a short period of time, or the robot jitters?

Don’t worry! ESTUN robot has self-learning vibration suppression and motion mode technology, which can automatically calculate vibration suppression and acceleration and deceleration parameters through simple guided steps. It can significantly reduce jitter and increase the tempo according to the scene trajectory, reducing personnel debugging costs and the need for experts. rely.

Scenario 3: What should I do if the trajectory deviation of the robot is too large in applications such as welding, gluing, and deburring?

Don’t worry! ESTUN's control technology and software calibration technology based on the full dynamics model improve the trajectory accuracy and positioning accuracy of the robot, while optimizing for different processes, such as short-distance acceleration capabilities for welding applications, and constant speed maintenance for variable postures during gluing functions, etc., to maximize the performance of the robot.

Scenario 4: When the robot is used in conjunction with external axes, what should we do if the trajectory coordination accuracy is poor?

Don’t worry! ESTUN controller is equipped with a dedicated guide rail calibration interface, which is easy to operate and the guide rail coordination accuracy can be effectively guaranteed.

Scenario 5: What to do when faced with difficulties in selecting spot welding robot technology and solution design?

High-rigidity mechanical body + high-performance motor + full dynamic model speed improvement algorithm, combined with a newly upgraded spot welding software package, has dual-machine collaboration capabilities to meet the needs of high-tempo spot welding applications.

For spot welding, a typical application in the automotive industry, ESTUN conducted in-depth research in the early stage, covering various aspects such as electrical cabinets, main bodies, performance, communications, simulations, process software, etc., and developed a special electrical cabinet and main body for spot welding. It has functions such as high-performance trajectory planning algorithm, multiple bus communications (master/slave, safety/non-safety), PDPS software adaptation (dedicated RCS controller) and other dedicated spot welding process software packages to fully meet the needs of automotive industry applications.

ESTUN Automation's new generation of robots has been upgraded for the entire series of 76 robots. Lightweight, general-purpose four-axis, general-purpose six-axis, special robot for arc welding, bending, die-casting, spot welding and other industries, making a qualitative leap in performance and ease of operation.

ESTUN Automation will continue to innovate, keep its products and services among the first in the global robot industry, strive to build the world's leading industrial robot brand, and promote the vigorous development of the Chinese robot industry with excellent quality.