TY - GEN
T1 - Robot arm without using robot language and its application to machining process
AU - Nagata, Fusaomi
AU - Nakamura, Kosuke
AU - Otsuka, Akimasa
AU - Watanabe, Keigo
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A cast metal is generally produced by using a sand mold. A foamed polystyrene mold is used as the master mold for making the corresponding sand mold. Recently, the development of a flexible machining robot for foamed polystyrene materials is expected in the cast metal industries because of the high cost and inefficiency of conventional large-sized CNC machine tools. In this paper, a machining robot based on an industrial robot is proposed for foamed polystyrene materials. A compact and light weight tool is developed and attached to the arm tip. Also, the robot has a novel robotic CAM system from the view point of teachingless operation. The proposed CAM system performs the basic function which enables the robot arm to follow not only numerical control data (NC data) but also cutter location data (CL data) consisting of position and normal direction vectors. The developed robotic CAM system provides a simple interface without using any robot languages between a well-known CAD/CAM system and the robot arm RV1A. The basic design of the machining robot using the robotic CAM system is presented for foamed polystyrene materials.
AB - A cast metal is generally produced by using a sand mold. A foamed polystyrene mold is used as the master mold for making the corresponding sand mold. Recently, the development of a flexible machining robot for foamed polystyrene materials is expected in the cast metal industries because of the high cost and inefficiency of conventional large-sized CNC machine tools. In this paper, a machining robot based on an industrial robot is proposed for foamed polystyrene materials. A compact and light weight tool is developed and attached to the arm tip. Also, the robot has a novel robotic CAM system from the view point of teachingless operation. The proposed CAM system performs the basic function which enables the robot arm to follow not only numerical control data (NC data) but also cutter location data (CL data) consisting of position and normal direction vectors. The developed robotic CAM system provides a simple interface without using any robot languages between a well-known CAD/CAM system and the robot arm RV1A. The basic design of the machining robot using the robotic CAM system is presented for foamed polystyrene materials.
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U2 - 10.1109/CyberneticsCom.2013.6865789
DO - 10.1109/CyberneticsCom.2013.6865789
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84906908471
SN - 9781467360531
T3 - Proceeding - IEEE CYBERNETICSCOM 2013: IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cybernetics
SP - 97
EP - 101
BT - Proceeding - IEEE CYBERNETICSCOM 2013
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cybernetics, IEEE CYBERNETICSCOM 2013
Y2 - 3 December 2013 through 4 December 2013
ER -