• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.167-168
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• 2006

This paper is concerned about the development system that the bead width's size can be controlled. In order to control the bead width, DC motor driving slide on auto carriage is used. The adjustment of bead width is carried by amplitude and weaving shape is controlled by MCU(Micro Controller Unit). We confirmed the result by tracking experiments.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.600-607
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• 2001

A CCD camera with a laser stripe was applied to realize the automatic weld seam tracking in GMAW. It takes relatively long time to process image on-line control using the basic Hough transformation, but it has a tendency of robustness over the noises such as spatter and arc light. For this reason. it was complemented with adaptive Hough transformation to have an on-line processing ability for scanning specific weld points. The adaptive Hough transformation was used to extract laser stripes and to obtain specific weld points. The 3-dimensional information obtained from the vision system made it possible to generate the weld torch path and to obtain the information such as width and depth of weld line. We controled the wire feeding rate using informations of weld line.

• International Journal of Korean Welding Society
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.57-60
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• 2002

Generally, the laser vision sensor makes it possible design a highly reliable and precise range sensor at a low cost. When the laser vision sensor is applied to lap joint welding, however. there are many limitations. Therefore, a specially-designed hardware system has to be used. However, if the multi-lines are used instead of a single line, multi-range data .:an be generated from one image. Even under a set condition of 30fps, the generated 2D range data increases depending on the number of lines used. In this study, a laser vision sensor with a multi-line pattern is developed with conventional CCD camera to carry out high speed seam tracking in lap joint welding.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.301-302
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• 2006

In this paper, the possibilities of the Infra-red sensor in sensing and control of the bead geometry in the automated welding process are presented. Infra-red sensor is a well-known method to deal with the problems with a high degree of fuzziness so that the sensor is employed to build the relationship between process variables and the quality characteristic the proposed above respectively. Based on several neural networks, the mathematical models are derived from extensive experiments with different welding parameters and complex geometrical features. The developed system enables to select the optimal welding parameters and control the desired weld dimensions during arc welding process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Laser Processing Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.3-8
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• 2005

The robot systems are widely used in the welding manufacturing. The essential tasks to operate the welding robot are the acquisition of the position and/or shape of the parent metal. For the seam tracking or the robot automation, many kinds of contact and non-contact of the system which monitors the shape of the welding part is described. This system uses the line-type structured laser diode and the visual sensor. It includes the correction of radial distortion which is often found in the image from the camera with short focal length. Direct Linear Transformation (DLT) is used for the camera calibration. The three dimensional shape of the parent metal is obtained after simple linear transformation. Therefore, the system operates in real time. Some experiments are carried out to evaluate the performance of the developed system.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.49-52
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• 2002

A vision sensor measure range data using laser light source, This sensor generally use patterned laser which shaped single line. But this vision sensor cannot satisfy new trend which needs faster and more precise processing. The sensor's sampling rate increases as reduced image processing time. However, the sampling rate can not over 30fps, because a camera has mechanical sampling limit. If we use multi line laser pattern, we will measure multi range data in one image. In the case of using same sampling rate camera, number of 2D range data profile in one second is directly proportional to laser line's number. For example, the vision sensor using 5 laser lines can sample 150 profiles per second in best condition.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.28-38
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• 1994

고속 연속용접시 필연적으로 발생하는 용접선의 오차를 감소하는 방법으로 용접선 추적을 하게 되는데, 본 연구에서는 근래에 상용화된 전자기식 방식과 레이저 시각 방식을 이용하여 용접시 발생할 수 있는 용접선의 형태에 대하여 용접선 추적을 실험하였다. 이 시험을 통하여 각각의 방식에는 고유의 특성을 가지고 있음을 알았다. 효율적인 용접 자동화 시스템을 구성하기 위하여, 용접하고자 하는 대상물 및 시스템에 대하여 적절한 센서의 선택이 선행되어져야 할 것이다. 본 연구실은 수행중인 레이저 용접 자동화 시스템 구성을 할 예정이다. 끝으로 위와 같은 용접선 추적장치는 전량을 수입에 의존하고 있는 실정이다. 보편적인 센서 시스템의 개발보다는 구축 하고자 하는 시스템에 알맞는 센서의 개발이 선행되어야 할 것으로 생각된다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.7-15
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• 1996

아크 용접 공정을 자동화하고 무인화하는 것은 용접 품질향상 및 생산성 향상 에 기여할 뿐만 아니라 용접숙련공의 감소문제에도 대처할 수 있기 때문에 중요한 것이라 생각된다. 그것을 위해 아크용접 분야에도 로봇의 도입이 급격히 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 그러나 현재 현장에 도입된 로봇은 주로 off-line으로 그 기능을 수행 하고 있기 때문에 생산성 향상 및 용접 품질향상 면에서 그 기능을 충분히 발휘하고 있지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이런 단점을 극복하기 위해서는 센서의 도입과 그것을 이용하여 용접시스템을 퍼드백 루프로 구성할 필요가 있고 용접선 추적(seam tracking), 용융지 형상제어, 아크 길이 제어 등은 그 예라고 할 수 있다. 본논문에서 는 그동안 국내에서는 심도있게 취급되지 않았던 용융지 형상 제어시스템과 그것을 구성하기 위해 많이 사용되고 있는 비전센서에 관하여 서술한다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.35-40
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• 2014

The contact tip for gas metal arc welding has important functions to transmit the welding current to the wire and to guide the wire to molten pool. If the contact tip is damaged, it is a cause of lowering the welding productivity due to removal of welding defects and replacement of contact tip. In case of the use of a contact tip for a long time the arc is unstable because the processed hole in the contact tip center is larger, and the variation of aiming position of the welding wire causes a seam tracking error. In this study, gas metal arc welding experiments using contact tip of three different materials were performed. The contact tips with Cu-P, Cu-Cr, and Cu-ODS were used at the experiments, and the welding characteristics by each contact tip were evaluated. After welding contact tip appearance, welding spatter adhesion amount of the nozzle, and weld bead appearance were evaluated. The welding current and welding voltage were measured to verify arc stability during arc welding.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1137-1140
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• 2005

Automatic welding has been used frequently on pipeline projects. The productivity and reliability are most essential features of the automatic welding system. The mechanized GMAW process is the most widely used welding process and the carriage and band system is most effective welding system for pipeline laying. This application-oriented paper introduces new automatic welding equipment for pipeline construction. It is based on cutting-edge design and practical welding physics to minimize downtime. This paper also describes the control system which was designed and implemented for new automatic welding equipment. The system has the self diagnostic function which facilitates maintenance and repairs, and also has the network function via which the welding task data can be transmitted and the welding process data can be monitored. The laser vision sensor was designed for narrow welding groove in order to implement higher accuracy of seam tracking and fully automatic operation.