Real-time seam tracking for robotic laser welding using trajectory-based control

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 944-953

  de Graaf, Menno ^a   Aarts, Ronald ^a   Jonker, Ben ^a   Meijer, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Laser welding; Robotics; Seam tracking; Synchronisation; Trajectory generation; Trajectory based control

Indexed keywords

LASER WELDING; SEAM TRACKING; SYNCHRONISATION; TRAJECTORY GENERATION; TRAJECTORY-BASED; TRAJECTORY-BASED CONTROL;

ALGORITHMS; LASER BEAM WELDING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 77955095402     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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