Automation of Polishing Process with Industrial Robots
- Polishing Path Generation in Consideration of Surface Curvature -
Koichi MORISHIGE, Yusuke UEKI, Tohru ISHIDA and Yoshimi TAKEUCHI
Proceedings of the International Conference
on Leading Edge Manufacturing in 21st Century (LEM21),
Vol.1, pp.109-114
(Nagoya, Japan, October 19-22, 2005)
The study deals with the automation of polishing process for free-form
surfaces by means of an industrial robot. In general, the polishing
process has been performed by handwork of skilled workers.
Since the polishing environment is extremely inferior and the polishing
process is time-consuming and tedious work, the automation of polishing
process is strongly desired. In the study, the polishing path generation
is devised to improve the surface quality. Thus, the relationship between
the surface curvature of workpiece and the contact length of
polishing tool is investigated by experiments, which results in the new
polishing path generation method. As a result, it is found that the new
polishing path generation method is effective for polishing automation by
robots.
http://www.ims.mce.uec.ac.jp/
2005, by K.Morishige