• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.760-766
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• 2014

This paper represents a portable robot for use in the welding process of the double hulls in shipbuilding yards. It has 5 degrees of freedom and 3kg of payload. Its body weight is 17.3 [kg] so that human workers can carry it by hand to the work place. Its body is mainly made of magnesium and aluminum alloys. Since the robot is placed about 25m apart from its controller, EtherCAT is adopted for reliable connection between the robot and controller through a single light cable. RTX real-time kernel and KPA EtherCAT master are used to control the robot on a Windows XP environment. The performance of the developed robot is satisfactory to the requirement in welding tasks of U-type cells in shipbuilding yards.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.776-787
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• 2002

Automation of welding process in shipyards is ultimately necessary, since the welding site is spatially enclosed by floors and girders, and therefore welding operators are exposed to hostile working conditions. To solve this problem, a welding mobile robot that can navigate autonomously within the enclosure has been developed. To achieve the welding task in the closed space, the robotic welding system needs a sensor system for the working environment recognition and the weld seam tracking, and a specially designed environment recognition strategy. In this paper, a three-dimensional laser vision system is developed based on the optical triangulation technology in order to provide robots with 3D work environmental map. Using this sensor system, a spatial filter based on neural network technology is designed for extracting the center of laser stripe, and evaluated in various situations. An environment modeling algorithm structure is proposed and tested, which is composed of the laser scanning module for 3D voxel modeling and the plane reconstruction module for mobile robot localization. Finally, an environmental recognition strategy for welding mobile robot is developed in order to recognize the work environments efficiently. The design of the sensor system, the algorithm for sensing the partially structured environment with plane segments, and the recognition strategy and tactics for sensing the work environment are described and discussed with a series of experiments in detail.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2005년도 춘계학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.63-65
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• 2005

Because of simple principal and low cost, resistance spot welding has been used a lot for joining the sheet metal in automotive manufacturing process. Welding current, welding time, and force are the most important variables in resistance spot wording. Air guns have hem still used widely. The requirement of synchronizing between robot and weld-gun has become bigger as the field has been automated. The number of servo-gun in the field is trending upward because there're advantages as like to synchronize with robot and to control the stroke path and force by programming on servo-gun system. But no cleared force control method is suggested on servo-gun system until now. In this study, we proved the feedback current of the servo-motor can be used to an excellent force measuring sensor and the force is controlled by the feedback current. And we also detected force lowering during welding cycle on the servo-gun system and solved by compensated force control.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 1997년도 특별강연 및 추계학술발표 개요집
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• pp.179-183
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• 1997

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.96-105
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• 1996

Robot systems are widely utilized in the shipbuilding industry to enhance the productivity by automating the welding process. In order to increase productivity, it is necessary to reduce the time used for robot teaching. In this work, the automatic teaching system is developed for the subassembly process in the shipbuilding industry. A alser/vision sensor is designed to detect the weld seam and the image of the fillet joint is processed using the arm method. Positions of weld seams defined in the CAD database are transformed into the robot coordinate, and the dynamic programming technique is applied to find the sub-optimum weld path. Experiments are carried out to verify the system performance. The results show that the proposed automatic teaching system performs successfully and can be applied to the robot system in the subassembly process.

• 한국레이저가공학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2009

Because of its fast and precise welding performance, laser welding is becoming a new excellent welding method. However, the precise focusing and robust seam tracking are required to apply laser welding to the practical fields. In order to laser weld a type of T joint like a circular pipe on a square pipe, which could be met in the three dimensional structure such as an aluminum space frame, a visual sensor system was developed for automation of focusing and seam tracking. The developed sensor system consists of a digital CCD camera, a structured laser, and a vision processor. It is moved and positioned by a 2-axis motorized stage, which is attached to a 6 axis robot manipulator with a laser welding head. After stripe-type structured laser illuminates a target surface, images are captured through the digital CCD camera. From the image, seam error and defocusing error are calculated using image processing algorithms which includes efficient techniques handling continuously changed image patterns. These errors are corrected by the stage off-line during welding or teaching. Laser welding of a circular pipe on a square pipe was successful with the vision tracking system by reducing the path positioning and de focusing errors due to the robot teaching or a geometrical variation of specimens and jig holding.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.223-228
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• 2007

본 논문은 선박용 알루미늄 합금에 대하여 TIG, MIG 그리고 로봇을 이용한 용접 등과 같은 다양한 용접기술을 적용하여 기계적 특성을 평가하였다. TIG 용접을 실시하였을 경우는 항복강도, 인장강도 그리고 연신율은 모재에 비하여 각각 83.9%, 64.6% 그리고 21.9%를 나타냈다. MIG 용접은 ER5356 용접봉을 사용하여 용접한 경우 ER5183 용접봉을 사용한 경우에 비하여 기계적 특성이 대략 2-4% 정도 개선된 효과가 관찰되었다. 또한 로봇을 이용한 용접을 실시한 경우는 5456-H116 모재에 비하여 5083O 모재의 경우가 양호한 기계적 특성을 나타냈다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2009

This study aims for determination of cutting work envelope of an articular robot for H-beam cutting. The robot has its own work envelope. The cutting of piece with groove requires the specific position of the torch which contracts the work envelope. This study suggested the new method to determine the cutting work envelope for this case. The method simplified the problem by use of the combination of inverse kinematics and forward kinematics. The method was used for cutting the H-beam with groove. The cutting work envelope was determined easily. The result was verified by 3D simulation system which implements the articular robot with 6 axes and the H-beam in the virtual shop.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.24-33
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• 1990

한 대의 자동차에는 많은 용접자들이 분포하므로 각 로보트에 할당되는 용접점의 수가 커지는데, 전체 공정에서 용접 작업이 차지하는 시간을 줄이기 위해서 용접 순서를 적절하게 계획할 필요성이 있다. 본 논문에서는 점 용접용 로보트의 효과적인 교시를 위한 오프라인 프로그래밍 방법을 제안한다. 이는 용접 로보트와 작업 대상물과의 충돌을 고려하여, 충돌 회피를 보장하며 최단 거리를 갖는 용접 순서를 계획하는데에 고전적인 TSP 알고리듬을 변형하여 적용한 것으로서 자동차 용접 작업에 응용한다. 또한 작업을 계획아는데에 필요한 모델 데이터로 기존의 일반적인 CAD 시스템과 그의 데이터를 이용할 수 있도록 하므로써, 데이터 베이스의 구축을 한층 용이하고 또 정교하게 할 수 있다록 한다. 자동차 생산 공정의 한 예에 본 교시 방식을 적용하므로써, 이의 효율성을 보인다.

• 한국공작기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국공작기계학회 1998년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.274-280
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• 1998

The welding technology and qualities are developed significantly, in recent years, in the use of automated processing technology and welding robot systems. But these automated welding technologies have many difficulties for finding the optimal welding parameter conditions. Because of the lack of mathematical model for determination of optimal welding process parameters. In this study, the sensitivity analysis of the empirical equations for finding weld bead width, height and penetration depth by using the published formulae. The selected major welding process parameters effected to weld bead geometries are the welding speed, current, voltage and weld wire diameter.