A Robot for Fiber Insertion in a Profile

We present a robot built for the insertion of a large amount of optical fibres in profiles. The large amount of fibres to be inserted into the profiles lead to the need of automation of this process. The main original task of the robot relies on the manipulation of 1 mm diameter plastic optical fibres to be introduced in special plastic channels, the profiles, without destroying the fragile cladding of the fibres. We present the design and construction of the robot, its functional description, the automation solution choice and implementation, and the achieved performance results.