Intelligent methodology for sensing, modeling, and control of weld penetration in robotic welding system

Industrial Robot

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 585-593

  Lin, T ^a   Chen, H B ^a   Li, W H ^b   Chen, S B ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Control systems; Robotics; System monitoring; Welding

Indexed keywords

BEAD WIDTH; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FEEDING RATE; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORK CONTROLLER; IMAGE INFORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; INTELLIGENT CONTROLLERS; MODELING METHOD; MONITOR SYSTEM; MONITORING AND CONTROL; ON-LINE MONITORING SYSTEM; ONLINE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PREDICTION MODEL; REAL TIME ANALYSIS; ROBOTIC ARC WELDING; ROBOTIC WELDING SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS SYSTEMS; STORAGE TANK; SYSTEM MONITORING; VARIABLE PRECISION ROUGH SETS; VISION SENSORS; WELD PENETRATIONS; WELD POOL; WELD QUALITY; WELDING PROCESS; WELDING QUALITY; WORK PIECES;

CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROLLERS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC ARC WELDING; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SET THEORY; WELDING; WELDS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 73149124488     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910910994650     Document Type: Article

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