An arc welding robot control for a shaped metal deposition plant: Modular software interface and sensors

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3126-3132

  Bonaccorso, Filippo ^a   Cantelli, Luciano ^a   Muscato, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arc welding control; control; Labview software interface; shaped metal deposition (SMD)

Indexed keywords

ARC WELDING ROBOTS; ARC-WELDING; AUTOMATIC CONTROLLERS; INNOVATIVE METHOD; LABVIEW; LABVIEW SOFTWARE; LAYER BY LAYER DEPOSITION; METAL DEPOSITION; MODULAR SOFTWARES; ROBOTIC ARC WELDING; SHAPED METAL DEPOSITION (SMD); SOFTWARE INTERFACES; WHOLE PROCESS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONTROLLERS; DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC ARC WELDING; METALS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; WELDING;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 79960350918     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2114311     Document Type: Article

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