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Automatic welding of tubular TKY joints is an important and challenging task for the marine and offshore industry. In this paper, a framework for tubular joint detection and motion planning is proposed. The pose of the real tubular joint is detected using RGB-D sensors, which is used to obtain a real-to-virtual mapping for positioning the workpiece in a virtual environment. For motion planning, a...
Welding joints for offshore oil rigs present a complicated geometry and require multiple passes. This paper introduces a complete collision-free offline path planning approach for such joints. Collision detection is performed using A* search on a three dimensional grid, where triangular mesh representations of the welding joint and its fixture form the objects. A workflow is proposed for the complete...
An automated bead layout methodology is proposed for multi-pass welding on varying seam angle. This methodology will replace the tedious process of ‘teaching and playback’ in the current line of robotic welding. To develop the proposed method, manual flux cored arc welding has been conducted on several workpieces. It is then ascertained that the bead size varies from 25 to 30 mm2 in a more ideal welding...
In this paper, a modified entropy-based algorithm is proposed for identification and reconstruction of a complex weld geometry. The edge of the weld geometry is identified based on minimizing a modified entropy-type cost function, and the weld geometry is reconstructed based on the detected edge. In addition, the volume of the weld geometry is computed using the point cloud samples of the identified...
In this paper, an adaptive sampling algorithm is proposed for reconstruction of a complex weld geometry based on the obtained 3D point cloud. Several pivotal samples for reconstructing the weld geometry are selected from the point cloud using a randomized strategy in the initial stage of the iterative algorithm. Based on the pivotal samples, the model is incrementally refined in the second stage by...
This paper presents a novel approach employing nonlinear control for stabilization of standing posture for a humanoid robot using only hip joint. The robot is modeled as an acrobot where model parameters are estimated through adaptive algorithm. A ‘non-collocated partial feedback’ controller is applied. This is integrated with a linear feedback control, through LQR. Improved robustness to external...
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