Planning, Accuracy and 3D sensing for full automation robotic welding
Nowadays, the adoption of robotic systems by SMEs from the metalworking industrial sector is still very low. One of the factors that contribute to this reality is the lack of intuitive robot programming interfaces. Offline programming use in robotic welding is still short, due to: (1) limited absolute accuracy of industrial robots, that require (2) complex sensing procedures and finally the lack of automatic path planning of robot trajectories. Typically, the programming time of medium-sized parts takes around 6 hours, meaning that for traditional lot sizes (
