An Automated Coil Winding Machine for the SSC Dipole Magnets

Abstract

We have finished the preliminary design of a fully automated coil winding machine that can be used to manufacture the large number of SSC dipole magnets. The machine aims to perform all coil winding operations including coil parts inserting without human operators at a high productive rate. The machine is composed of five industrial robots.

In order to verify the design, we built a small winding machine using an industrial robot and succesfully wound a 1 meter long coil using SSC dipole magnet wire. The basic design for the full length coil and the robot winding technique are described in this paper.

A fully automated coil winding machine using standard industrial components would be very useful if duplicate production lines are used.