Robot trajectory integration for painting automotive parts with multiple patches

Author

Chen, Heping ; Xi, Ning ; Wei, Zhouhua ; Chen, Yifan ; Dah, Jeffrey

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

14-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

3984

Abstract

Automatic trajectory generation for spray painting is highly desirable for today´s automotive manufacturing. Generating a trajectory for a surface with only one patch is widely studied to satisfy the paint thickness constraints. However, a complex surface has to be divided into several patches to satisfy the paint thickness and paint gun orientation constraints. Trajectory generation for a surface with multiple patches has not been addressed yet. In this paper, optimization processes are developed to optimize the paint thickness on a surface which consists of several patches. Optimization results are presented. Simulations are performed to verify the optimized parameters. Verification results is consistent with the optimization results.

Keywords

automobile industry; industrial robots; optimisation; painting; path planning; spray coatings; thickness control; automotive manufacturing; automotive parts painting; multiple patches surface; optimization; paint gun orientation constraints; paint thickness constraints; robot trajectory integration; spray painting; trajectory generation; trajectory planning; Automobile manufacture; Automotive engineering; Education; Manufacturing processes; Painting; Paints; Robotics and automation; Robots; Spraying; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7736-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1242209

Filename

1242209