Title
A method for automatic spray painting of unknown parts
Abstract
Today industrial automation of spray painting is limited to high part volumes and robot trajectories that are programmed by off-line programming and manual teach-in. This paper presents an approach that uses range image data to obtain the geometry of an un- known part and to automatically generate the robot spray painting trajectories. Laser strip range sensors are installed in front of the paint booth to acquire a range image of the part. Utilizing process knowledge (a geometric library containing constraints specific for the painting application) geometric primitives are de- tected in the range data. From the geometric primi- tives a normal vector field is generated that enables to extract main faces. The main faces are located in 3D space and the process knowledge related to each geo- metric primitive is utilized to obtain the trajectory for the paint gun. Results of painting a car mirror and a stearing column are given.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/ROBOT.2002.1013400
Robotics and Automation, 2002. Proceedings. ICRA '02. IEEE International Conference  
Keywords
DocType
Volume
computational geometry,industrial robots,laser ranging,path planning,robot programming,spray coating techniques,automatic spray painting,geometric primitives,laser strip range sensors,paint path generation,range image,vector field
Conference
1
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
15
1.32
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pichler, A.1151.32
Markus Vincze21343136.87
H. J. Andersen3223.07
Madsen, O.4151.32