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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.3.16

Development of robot calibration method based on 3D laser scanning system for Off-Line Programming  

Kim, Hyun-Soo (School of Mechanical Engineering, Ulsan College)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.3, 2019 , pp. 16-22 More about this Journal
Abstract
Off-line programming and robot calibration through simulation are essential when setting up a robot in a robot automation production line. In this study, we developed a new robot calibration method to match the CAD data of the production line with the measurement data on the site using 3D scanner. The proposed method calibrates the robot using 3D point cloud data through Iterative Closest Point algorithm. Registration is performed in three steps. First, vertices connected by three planes are extracted from CAD data as feature points for registration. Three planes are reconstructed from the scan point data located around the extracted feature points to generate corresponding feature points. Finally, the transformation matrix is calculated by minimizing the distance between the feature points extracted through the ICP algorithm. As a result of applying the software to the automobile welding robot installation, the proposed method can calibrate the required accuracy to within 1.5mm and effectively shorten the set-up time, which took 5 hours per robot unit, to within 40 minutes. By using the developed system, it is possible to shorten the OLP working time of the car body assembly line, shorten the precision teaching time of the robot, improve the quality of the produced product and minimize the defect rate.
Keywords
Robot Calibration; OLP; 3D Scanner; Iterative Closest Point; Point Cloud;
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