An ear plate reinforced ring welding robot system with intelligent recognition function

Abstract

Large equipment factory and shipyards have lots of ear plate reinforced rings to be welded, which is time consuming and labor intensive. This paper is an introduction to a new intelligent framework for robotic welding based on an ear plate reinforced ring automatic welding robot system. Intelligent recognition, real-time tracking and shortest path planning have been innovatively integrated into a robotic intelligent framework. This type of experimentation has not been conducted previously in the area of industrial robotics. Detailed algorithms for these procedures are presented here, along with the results of the final experiment.