Real-time seam tracking for robotic laser welding

Menno de Graaf; Ronald Aarts; Ben Jonker; Johan Meijer

Real-time seam tracking for robotic laser welding

Menno de Graaf, Ronald Aarts, Ben Jonker, Johan Meijer

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Laser welding puts high demands on the robot or manipulator used, as it requires a high tracking accuracy (down to 0.1 mm) at high velocities (up to 250 mm/s). Sensors measuring the position of the laser focal point relative to the seam to be welded are therefore required to make robotic laser welding successful in a production environment. To use sensor information for real-time seam-tracking a special control architecture called trajectory based control has been developed. It uses a trajectory generator based on cubic interpolation, where Cartesian locations (position and orientation) can be added on-the-fly during the robot motion. This way sensor information obtained during the robot motion is used to generate the robot trajectory in real-time.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	25th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, March 13-15, 2006, Heeze, The Netherlands
Subtitle of host publication	Book of Abstracts
Editors	Bram de Jager, Gjerrit Meinsma
Place of Publication	Eindhoven
Publisher	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Pages	107-107
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Print)	978-90-386-2558-4
Publication status	Published - 13 Mar 2006
Event	25th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control 2006 - Heeze, Belgium Duration: 13 Mar 2006 → 15 Mar 2006 Conference number: 25

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Conference	25th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control 2006
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Heeze
Period	13/03/06 → 15/03/06

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de Graaf, M, Aarts, R , Jonker, B & Meijer, J 2006, Real-time seam tracking for robotic laser welding. in B de Jager & G Meinsma (eds), 25th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, March 13-15, 2006, Heeze, The Netherlands: Book of Abstracts. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, pp. 107-107, 25th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control 2006, Heeze, Belgium, 13/03/06.

Real-time seam tracking for robotic laser welding. / de Graaf, Menno; Aarts, Ronald ; Jonker, Ben et al.
25th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, March 13-15, 2006, Heeze, The Netherlands: Book of Abstracts. ed. / Bram de Jager; Gjerrit Meinsma. Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 2006. p. 107-107.

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