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- Title
CAD-Guided Spray Gun Trajectory Planning of Free-Form Surfaces in Manufacturing.
- Authors
Chen, Heping; Xi, Ning; Chen, Yifan; Dahl, Jeffrey
- Abstract
Automatic trajectory generation for spray painting is highly desirable for today's automotive manufacturing. Generating paint gun trajectories for free-form surfaces to satisfy paint thickness requirements is still highly challenging due to the complex geometry of free-form surfaces. In this paper, a CAD-guided paint gun trajectory generation system for free-form surfaces has been developed. The system utilizes the CAD information of a free-form surface to be painted and a paint gun model to generate a paint gun trajectory to satisfy the paint thickness requirements. The paint thickness deviation from the required paint thickness is optimized by modifying the paint gun velocity. A paint thickness verication method is also provided to verify the generated trajectories. The results of simulations have shown that the trajectory generation system achieves satisfactory performance. This trajectory generation system can also be applied to generate trajectories for many other CAD-guided robot trajectory planning applications.
- Subjects
COMPUTER-aided design; SPRAY painting; FLUID dynamics; AUTOMATION
- Publication
Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, 2003, Vol 2, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0219-6867
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0219686703000216