• Title/Summary/Keyword: Machine Tending

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Development of Plug-n-Play Automation System for Machine Tending through Digital Twin (디지털 트윈을 활용한 Plug-n-Play 머신텐딩 자동화 시스템 개발)

  • Park, Yong-Keun;Kim, Sujong;Um, Jumyung
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.143-154
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    • 2020
  • With the increasing trend of making manufacturing system intelligent and autonomous, the introduction of robot-assist automation, like machine tending system for automated operation of CNC machine tools, is being actively carried out at many industrial sites. Most important part of this intelligent system to install machine tending system, is interface programming between the CNC machine tools and the industrial robot. Despite this importance, however, the machine tending system has many setup problems. it is necessary for difficult re-program of both controllers whenever a new CNC machine tool or robot is introduced. And, the helps of external engineers is required even though trivial changes due to the complex structure of the machine tending system. Authors of this paper introduces the integrated system of the interface between heterogeneous CNC machine tools and industrial robots. In addition, the digital twin implemented inside the machine tool controller enable shop-floor operators to change the interface programming easily. To implement this system, an integrated development environment for 1) an intelligent HMI platform that provide standardized interfaces to heterogeneous CNC machine tools and 2) a robot platform developing application software of various robots, was established. For easy un-tact environment, this paper explain the development of 3) a game-engine based web program of controlling and monitoring machine tending system remotely.

Post Processor Using a Fuzzy Feed Rate Generator for Multi-Axis NC Machine Tools with a Rotary Unit

  • Nagata, F.;Kusumoto, Y.;Hasebe, K.;Saito, K.;Fukumoto, M.;Watanabe, K.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.438-443
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    • 2005
  • Handy paint rollers with simple or no patterns are generally used to transcribe its design to a wall just after painting. However, the types of the patterns are limited to several conventional ones, so that interior planners' or decorators' demands are gradually tending to getting attractive roller designs. In order to obtain abundant kinds of the roller designs, a new advanced 3D machining method should be established for cylindrical models. In this paper, a post-processor that can generate suitable NC data is proposed for multi-axis NC machine tools with a rotary unit. The 3D machining system with the post-processor is also presented for an attractive interior decorating. The machining system allows us to easily transcribe the relief designs from on a flat model to on a cylindrical model. The effectiveness of the proposed 3D machining system using the post-processor is demonstrated through some machining experiments.

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ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUD AND ARC WELDING DUAL-PURPOSE ROBOT SYSTEM (스터트 및 아크 용접 겸용 로보트 시스템의 개발)

  • 이용중;유범상
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.582-587
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    • 1993
  • A robot application system is developed for dual purpose of stud welding and are welding to weld plates in the manufacturing of elevator cabin. The production quantity is not so big to accommodate separate stations for stud welding and are welding respectively while the need for randomization of the processes is urgent. A robot with specification for spot welding is chosen, which is appropriate for stud welding. Some implementations are made so that the robot may also be shared for are welding process. Common jig and fixture is designed for the dual purpose. Important aspects in the procedure of system design, installation, and commissioning are stated, and signal set-ups and logic diagrams are illustrated.

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An Optimization Algorithm with Novel Flexible Grid: Applications to Parameter Decision in LS-SVM

  • Gao, Weishang;Shao, Cheng;Gao, Qin
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.39-50
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    • 2015
  • Genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are two excellent approaches to multimodal optimization problems. However, slow convergence or premature convergence readily occurs because of inappropriate and inflexible evolution. In this paper, a novel optimization algorithm with a flexible grid optimization (FGO) is suggested to provide adaptive trade-off between exploration and exploitation according to the specific objective function. Meanwhile, a uniform agents array with adaptive scale is distributed on the gird to speed up the calculation. In addition, a dominance centroid and a fitness center are proposed to efficiently determine the potential guides when the population size varies dynamically. Two types of subregion division strategies are designed to enhance evolutionary diversity and convergence, respectively. By examining the performance on four benchmark functions, FGO is found to be competitive with or even superior to several other popular algorithms in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency, tending to reach the global optimum earlier. Moreover, FGO is evaluated by applying it to a parameter decision in a least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) to verify its practical competence.

Optimal Landing Location and Skid Trail Network Selection in Timber Harvesting Area (목재수확작업지의 적정 집재장 선정 및 작업로 배치)

  • Ji, Byoung-Yun;Oh, Jae-Heun;Park, Sang-Jun;Hwang, Jin-Sung;Cha, Du-Song
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.195-203
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    • 2011
  • Forest in the our country is in the age that needs positive operation in order to foster economical forest. Multiple operations for making valuable forest should be conducted steadily and timely from afforestation to harvesting. In order to execute these kinds of forest operations, the construction of skid trail network that can be effectively used as a pathway for forestry machine and working space is necessary. To investigate facility effect of skid trail network, we executed the location of skid trail network through centroid method by GIS for 50ha of harvesting workplace in mechanized model forest located in Hongcheon, Gangwon Province. As a result of this research, skid trail density in this area changed from 79m/ha with current method to 42m/ha with improved method. It appeared that skid trail density with improved method is nearly half of current method even though the cutting area is the same as the current cutting area. Also, skidding distance changed from 117m with current method to 57m with improved method. It appears that skidding distance with improved method is nearly half of current method even though cutting area was enlarged in adjacent tending cutting area.