The Paton Welding Journal, 2010, №11



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TPWJ, 2010, #11, 35-38 pages
 
IMAGE PROCESSING FOR AUTOMATED ROBOTIC WELDING


Journal                    The Paton Welding Journal
Publisher                 International Association «Welding»
ISSN                       0957-798X (print)
Issue                       № 11, 2010 (November)
Pages                      35-38
 
 
Authors
P. SEYFFARTH and R. GAEDE
Ingenieurtechnik und Maschinenbau GmbH, Rostock, Germany
 
 
Abstract
The new developed by IMG and used by WADAN yards MTW image processing system for welding robots delivers a very fast automatically generated program. A laser line scanner with a scanning rate of 1 m/s and a fast working calculation unit gives a 3D picture in less than 3 min all over the 16 x 4 m panel. The accuracy of the robotic positioning is +-0.5 mm after the shake hand process between the image processing system and the robot programming system. This new developed 3D geometrically recognising and robot programming system allows a very fast and flexible production system for micropanels without any link to the central computer aided yard system. This «stand alone system» is independent, more flexible and shows beside of other advantages a high productivity.
 
 
Keywords: robot welding, fillet welding, image processing, robot programming, micropanel welding, welding in shipbuilding
 
 
Received:                ??.??.??
Published:               28.11.10
 
 

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