Time Synchronization in modular collaborative robots

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With the growing popularity of robots, we are starting to observe how these machines are entering new areas. The degree of automation in a variety of applications is rapidly increasing. The food industry is one of the latest hypes in robotics and current <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/technology" target="_blank">technology</a> is showing limitations to cope with the demands that arise when preparing a salad. Moving beyond new robot applications and looking back at traditional industrial automation, technical hurdles are starting to be identified as critical for further growth. Geenen [1] indicates that previous work conducted at Fraunhofer [2] showed that full automation of production cycles is often inefficient due to the challenges presented when mixing high numbers of product varieties combined in small batch quantities. He remarks that achieving efficiency in this landscape requires the <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/development" target="_blank">development</a> of flexible and adaptable production systems that can be applied to a variety of tasks [3] and proposes a new generation of robot systems which are modular, flexible and safe for Human-Robot-Collaboration (HRC).