- Title
- Vision-guided tracking of complex tree-dimensional seams for robotic gas metal arc welding
- Creator
- Hamed, Maien
- Subject
- Robot vision
- Subject
- Robotics
- Subject
- Gas metal arc welding
- Date Issued
- 2011
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEngineering (Mechatronics)
- Identifier
- vital:9646
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1428
- Identifier
- Robot vision
- Identifier
- Robotics
- Identifier
- Gas metal arc welding
- Description
- Automation of welding systems is often restricted by the requirements of spatial information of the seams to be welded. When this cannot be obtained from the design of the welded parts and maintained using accurate xturing, the use of a seam teaching or tracking system becomes necessary. Optical seam teaching and tracking systems have many advantages compared to systems implemented with other sensor families. Direct vision promises to be a viable strategy for implementing optical seam tracking, which has been mainly done with laser vision. The current work investigated direct vision as a strategy for optical seam teaching and tracking. A robotic vision system has been implemented, consisting of an articulated robot, a hand mounted camera and a control computer. A description of the calibration methods and the seam and feature detection and three-dimensional scene reconstruction is given. The results showed that direct vision is a suitable strategy for seam detection and learning. A discussion of generalizing the method used as an architecture for simultanious system calibration and measurement estimation is provided.
- Format
- vi, 138 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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