Painting parts automatically at lot size one

Author

Vincze, Markus ; Biegelbauer, Georg ; Pichler, Andreas

Author_Institution

Autom. & Control Inst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Austria

fYear

2004

fDate

24-25 May 2004

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

40

Abstract

Today industrial automated spray painting is characterized by off-line robot programming and manual teach-in methods. This work reports an "inverse approach" that automatically generates the painting motion enabling part painting of lot size one. The principle of this new approach is based on formalizing the technological knowledge in a geometry library and a process library. Laser range sensors are used to obtain an accurate scan of the part. Process-relevant classes of features are detected as specified in the geometry library and linked to basic paint strategies. Painting results for car parts and different motors with gearboxes are shown.

Keywords

computational geometry; industrial robots; optical sensors; painting; path planning; robot programming; geometry library; industrial automated spray painting; laser range sensors; offline robot programming; painting motion; process library; Computational geometry; Geometrical optics; Humans; Libraries; Painting; Paints; Robot programming; Robotics and automation; Service robots; Spraying;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot Sensing, 2004. ROSE 2004. International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8296-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROSE.2004.1317611

Filename

1317611