Smart Enabling Robotics driving free FOrm Welding "SERFOW"

增材制造（AM）可以指将材料连接起来以从数字3D模型或设计数据制造物体的过程，它用于构建一个组件-通常是层层叠加-包括一系列技术，如增材制造或自由成型制造。为了使增材制造成为全球制造业的一股高度颠覆性力量，实现从原型制造向大规模制造的转变，零部件和配件的生产。该项目旨在通过将机器人机械手与3D视觉系统集成来推进AM中使用的技术，以定位和拾取特定对象并将其保持在适当位置，同时单独的手臂提供熔焊电弧以通过完成焊接将组件连接在一起。该概念验证项目旨在开发一种创新的，自由形式的熔焊演示器，其能够使用从一系列源（例如计算机辅助设计或真实的）提供的数字信息来制造或组装新产品，先进的数字检测提供的时间数据。生产技术将定位和抓住所需的零件，将它们固定在适当的位置，使它们能够通过分层焊接方法焊接在一起。

Additive manufacturing (AM) can refer to the process of joining materials to make objects from digital 3D model or design data, which is used to build-up a component - usually layer-upon-layer - and includes a range of techniques such as additive or freeform fabrication.Innovative technology is required in order for AM to become a highly disruptive force within the global manufacturing industry enabling a shift from prototyping to mass production of parts and accessories. This project seeks to advance the technology used in AM by integrating robot manipulators with 3D vision systems to locate and pick up specific objects and hold them in place while a separate arm provides a fusion welding arc to join the components together by completing the weld.This proof-of-concept project intends to develop an innovative, free-form fusion welding demonstrator that is capable of new product fabrication or assembly using digital information supplied from a range of sources such as computer-aided-design or real-time data supplied by advanced digital inspection. The production technologies will locate and grasp the required parts, hold them in place enabling them to be welded together through a layered welding approach.