Offline CAD-based Robot Programming and Welding Parametrization of a Flexible and Adaptive Robotic Cell Using Enriched CAD/CAM System for Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding continues to be a handwork process, where many shipyard's facilities are poorly optimized, and there is not flexibility enough for more complex manufacturing techniques. In order to provide solutions, shipbuilding sector is emerging with the purpose of dinamizing its R&D enviro...

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Published in:Procedia manufacturing Vol. 11; pp. 215 - 223
Main Authors: Ferreira, L. Alonso, Figueira, Y. Lapido, Iglesias, I. Fernández, Souto, M. Álvarez
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V 2017
Subjects:
hyper-flexible cell
industrial robots
offline automatic system programming
shipbuilding
welding
welding
offline automatic system programming
industrial robots
shipbuilding
hyper-flexible cell
ISSN:2351-9789, 2351-9789
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Summary:Shipbuilding continues to be a handwork process, where many shipyard's facilities are poorly optimized, and there is not flexibility enough for more complex manufacturing techniques. In order to provide solutions, shipbuilding sector is emerging with the purpose of dinamizing its R&D environment, developing advanced tools to make easier the technological evolution of the sector. The proposed solution is a hyper-flexible welding robotic cell with 9 degrees of freedom (6 axes robot arm unit mounted on a 3 axes XYZ gantry) adapted to small batch manufacturing. The cell is programmed in a CAD (Computer Aided Design) environment allows to implement automatic welding sequences to an inexperienced programmer: ‘Offline automatic system programming’.
ISSN:2351-9789
2351-9789
DOI:10.1016/j.promfg.2017.07.228