High costs, numerous manual processes anda high safety risk for workers. A new robot-supportedsolution compensates all these negativefactors associated with working on anoil drilling platform. An independently workingdrilling platform system for use on land or offshorehas been developed. The innovative robotacts completely independently – choosessuitable drilling elements, moves them to theperfect position and uses them. The robot lifts very precise and lifts weights up to 1.500kg. Here, severalRBR systems with e-chains® are used in therobot’s joints; these are responsible for thesupply of power and data as well as media. The technical development, which was extremelycomplex due to the limited design spaceavailable, was taken over by the igus® ProjectEngineering Team.
 
Robotic Drilling Systems AS, Jimmy Bostrom,Sandnes, Norway