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Laser Revolutionizes Industrial Welding

Special attention has been focused on creating an ergonomic operator station that is not intimidating. This guarantees fast and efficient work, without fatigue, for many hours. The operator sits in front of the welder and manually loads parts to be welded into the enclosure. The operator has a clear view of the processing area through a large laser-safe window of protective glass. The final pos...

Seam Tracking for Laser Welding with an Industrial Robot

Because of their construction and flexibility, industrial robots are suitable to be used, with a laser source and an optical fiber, for laser welding of 3D products. However, the positioning accuracy of robots are insufficient for laser welding. Also the product and clamping tolerances are too wide for laser welding. These problems can be solved by applying sensors, which measure the location o...

Object Oriented and Distributed Software Applied to Industrial Robotic Welding

Using robots with industrial welding operations is common, but far from being a solved technological process. The problems are with the robots (still in early stages, difficult to use and program by regular operators), the welding process (complex and not really well known) and the Human-Machine interfaces (non natural, really not working). In this paper we discuss these problems and present a ...

Industrial robot motion control for joint tracking in laser welding

Robotic Friction Stir Welding using a Standard Industrial Robot

In the automotive industry, a barrier to widespread implementation of friction stir welding (FSW) for aluminum joining is the perceived need for high cost, custom capital machinery. The reason for this perception is that the FSW process requires relatively large forces that commonly used automation machinery (e.g. an industrial robot) has difficulty producing. Further complicating the issue, is...