3K Solving Robot

Dexterous Polishing of Sculptured Surfaces by an Industrial Robot
- Automatic Selection of I-Shaped and L-Shaped Rotational Tools -

Naoki ASAKAWA and Yoshimi TAKEUCHI

Proc. of 29th CIRP Int. Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, 1997, Osaka, Japan, pp.370-375

The study aims to select the tools suitable for each part of a workpiece on the basis of CAD system, and to efficiently polish it by a 6-DOF industrial robot. Recently, even a product consists of too various shapes to finish it with a type of polishing tool. In the paper, the system automatically selects I-shaped type rotational tool or L-shaped type one according to the shapes of each part in a workpiece. As a result, it is found that the selection of two types of the tools in effective to polish a workpiece.

Polishing with I-tool Polishing with L-tool


R&CIM Takeuchi Lab. http://www.takeuchi.mce.uec.ac.jp/
, by N.Asakawa