DELTA ROBOT – OMRON QUATTRO 650 AND 800

With a speed of 300 withdrawals per minute, Omron Quattro is the fastest and most flexible Delta pick & place robot in the world. Omron Quattro is a four-axis parallel robot of high speed and high precision ideal for use in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and medical products.
Omron Quattro, the only four-arm delta robot on the market, has a larger working area and unparalleled handling capacity. Furthermore, it is the only delta robot that has obtained USDA certification and is made with safe materials for the primary handling of food products. These features make it hygienically superior to all other delta robots currently available on the market. Designed with a high payload to support multiple outlets (multi-picking), the four-axis arm evenly distributes the load on the robot.

Omron Quattro

• Models with a working area of ​​1,300 and 1,600
• Up to 15 kg max. payload
• Protection class IP65 (IP66 for the HS model)
• The 650HS model is approved by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the treatment of primary foods
• Ethernet capability to control the robot using the familiar programming language (IEC 61131-3) of the NX / NJ controller

The key to the advanced performance of the Omron Quattro delta robot lies in the exclusive and patented four-arm rotary platform, which offers significant advantages over traditional three-arm delta robots. In fact, the fourth arm increases the range of action by 30% compared to traditional configurations, thus expanding the operating area and allowing access to wider conveyors. Absolute novelty in the field of packaging and automation, the additional arm also allows you to tilt the load to position it at a different angle than the pick-up angle. The extraordinary combination of speed, handling, range and load capacity of 15 kg make Omron’s Delta Quattro robot the ideal solution for all general applications.

Delta or parallel robots and Omron Quattro

Omron Quattro is a delta robot. The typical configuration of a delta robot follows a classic pattern: three high-torque servomotors are mounted on a rigid frame. On each motor shaft, an arm is mounted perpendicular to the shaft rotation axis. Some robots use direct transmission, in which the arm is mounted directly on the shaft, and some use a reducer. These “bicep” arms are connected to light rods arranged in parallelograms to limit the twisting movement. These “forearm” arms are connected to a central platform. The joints at the two ends of each parallel rod move freely, typically in spherical joints. On the lower platform it is possible to connect the final effector and several other options, including motors for additional axes of freedom. Most delta robots have at least a fourth axis which allows the rotation of objects.

The main advantage of the delta robots is that the heavy motors are fixed on the frame, allowing the moving parts of the robot to be very light. On the contrary, each motor of an articulated arm robot carries the weight of all subsequent motors. Due to the lever-based design, the motors must provide high torque to counteract the increase in the lever applied by the payload on the shaft. This results in the low payload of most delta robots needed to maximize speed.

While most delta robots have three arms and four axes of freedom, there are other configurations available. Omron, for example, offers the Quattro parallel robot which uses 4 motors with 4 parallel connections instead of the classic 3 parallel connections: this design allows the robot to carry a greater payload or to perform a faster cycle, even twice as fast as to a “traditional” delta robot.