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Intelligent Seam Tracking for Robotic Welding

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  1. Nitin R. Nayak

    1. IBM Corporation, Austin, USA

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  2. Asok Ray

    1. Mechanical Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Industrial Control (AIC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nitin R. Nayak, Asok Ray
    Pages 1-7

  3. An Overview of Seam Tracking Technology

    • Nitin R. Nayak, Asok Ray
    Pages 8-30

  4. Feature Extraction and Seam Recognition Techniques

    • Nitin R. Nayak, Asok Ray
    Pages 31-58

  5. Coordinate Frames for Realtime Seam Tracking

    • Nitin R. Nayak, Asok Ray
    Pages 59-83

  7. Implementation Concerns in Seam Tracking Systems

    • Nitin R. Nayak, Asok Ray
    Pages 131-155

  8. Tracking Accuracy & Error Analysis

    • Nitin R. Nayak, Asok Ray
    Pages 156-180

  9. Seam Tracking System Prototypes

    • Nitin R. Nayak, Asok Ray
    Pages 181-196

  10. Future Directions

    • Nitin R. Nayak, Asok Ray
    Pages 197-201

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 202-225
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About this book

Intelligent Seam Tracking for Robotic Welding is part of the Advances in Industrial Control series, edited by Professor M.J. Grimble and Dr. M.A. Johnson of the Industrial Control Unit, University of Strathclyde. This publication discusses in depth the development of a seam tracking system for robotic welding. Various topics are covered including the theory of seam tracking, details of the sub-systems comprising the intelligent seam tracker and the operation of the seam tracking system with coordinated interaction amongst the various sub-systems. The sources of various seam tracking errors and existing seam tracking systems operating in both structured and unstructured welding environments are also addressed. The work reported builds upon the research conducted during the course of the project ARTIST (Adaptive, RealTime, Intelligent Seam Tracker) at the Applied Research Laboratory of the Pennsylvania State University. Although the book is presented in the context of seam tracking, issues related to systems integration are general in nature and relate to other applications as well.
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  • IBM Corporation, Austin, USA

    Nitin R. Nayak

  • Mechanical Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, USA

    Asok Ray

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