U.S.-Korea Cooperative Research: RoboWeld-S: Automatic Process Planning for Robotic Arc Welding of Sheet Metal Assemblies

9816363 Nnaji该奖项提供资金，允许巴塞洛缪博士O。Nnaji博士与韩国全北国立大学机械工程学院Dong-Won Kim博士合作开展为期24个月的合作研究计划，以找到自动化弧焊工艺的有效方法。 电弧焊是工业上一种重要而广泛的制造工艺。 例如，金属板的电弧焊接在制造用于汽车和航空航天工业、家用电器和各种制成品中的外壳的部件中具有许多应用。 然而，在焊接过程中，噪音、烟雾和强烈的热量和辐射造成了一个令人不快且对人体健康有害的环境。 因此，找到使电弧焊接过程自动化的有效手段已变得势在必行。 弧焊机器人的使用不仅可以改善人类的工作环境，而且可以节省劳动力成本，提高焊缝质量，并增加焊缝一致性。本项目的合作者希望他们的研究能够将离线机器人编程和焊接操作规划相结合，以自动生成机器人弧焊工艺计划。 一名博士后研究员将参与这项研究。 该项目与美国的目标有关-韩国合作科学计划，旨在通过科学信息，思想，技能和技术的交流以及通过互利问题的合作来提高美国和韩国科学家和工程师之间的合作水平。 韩国的参与得到了韩国科学和工程基金会的支持。

9816363NnajiThis award provides funds to permit Dr. Bartholomew O. Nnaji, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, to pursue with Dr. Dong-Won Kim, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Korea, for 24 months, a program of cooperative research to find efficient means for automating the arc welding process. Arc welding is an important and widespread fabrication process in industry. Arc welding of sheet metal, for example, has many applications in the fabrication of components used in the automotive and aerospace industries, home appliances, and housings in a variety of manufactured goods. During the welding process, however, noise, fumes, and intense heat and radiation make for an environment that is unpleasant and hazardous to human health. It has become imperative, therefore, to find efficient means for automating the arc welding process. The use of arc welding robots has the capacity not only to improve the human working environment, but also can save labor costs, increase weld quality, and increase weld consistency.The collaborators in this project expect their research to result in the integration of off-line robot programming and welding operation planning to generate process plans for robotic arc welding automatically. A postdoctoral fellow will participate in this research. This project is relevant to the objectives of the U.S.-Korea Cooperative Science Program which seeks to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. and Korean scientists and engineers through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual benefit. Korean participation is supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF).***