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Transforming Industrial Manipulators via Kinesthetic Guidance for Automated Inspection of Complex Geometries

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العنوان: Transforming Industrial Manipulators via Kinesthetic Guidance for Automated Inspection of Complex Geometries
المؤلفون: Charalampos Loukas, Momchil Vasilev, Rastislav Zimmerman, Randika K. W. Vithanage, Ehsan Mohseni, Charles N. MacLeod, David Lines, Stephen Gareth Pierce, Stewart Williams, Jialuo Ding, Kenneth Burnham, Jim Sibson, Tom O’Hare, Michael R. Grosser
المصدر: Sensors, Vol 23, Iss 7, p 3757 (2023)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Chemical technology
مصطلحات موضوعية: collaborative robotics, non-destructive evaluation, WAAM, kinesthetic, robot programming, Chemical technology, TP1-1185
الوصف: The increased demand for cost-efficient manufacturing and metrology inspection solutions for complex-shaped components in High-Value Manufacturing (HVM) sectors requires increased production throughput and precision. This drives the integration of automated robotic solutions. However, the current manipulators utilizing traditional programming approaches demand specialized robotic programming knowledge and make it challenging to generate complex paths and adapt easily to unique specifications per component, resulting in an inflexible and cumbersome teaching process. Therefore, this body of work proposes a novel software system to realize kinesthetic guidance for path planning in real-time intervals at 250 Hz, utilizing an external off-the-shelf force–torque (FT) sensor. The proposed work is demonstrated on a 500 mm2 near-net-shaped Wire–Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) complex component with embedded defects by teaching the inspection path for defect detection with a standard industrial robotic manipulator in a collaborative fashion and adaptively generating the kinematics resulting in the uniform coupling of ultrasound inspection. The utilized method proves superior in performance and speed, accelerating the programming time using online and offline approaches by an estimate of 88% to 98%. The proposed work is a unique development, retrofitting current industrial manipulators into collaborative entities, securing human job resources, and achieving flexible production.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1424-8220
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/7/3757; https://doaj.org/toc/1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s23073757
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/739b9e62eff64440a6a3462d41e98aba
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.739b9e62eff64440a6a3462d41e98aba
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:14248220
DOI:10.3390/s23073757