• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.446-452
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• 2016

최근 해양, 석유화학 플랜트 등에서는 내마모, 내식성, 내열성이 요구되는 초내열 합금이 기본적인 구조재료로 많이 사용되고 있다. 하지만 고가의 초내열 합금 소재로 밸브를 제작할 때 원가 상승과 가격 경쟁력 저하의 원인이 되고 있다. 이에 유체에 흐르는 특정부위만 육성 용접하는 기술이 효과적인 방법으로 사용되고 있다. 하지만 기존의 볼 육성용접의 경우 사람이 직접 수동으로 작업을 진행하기 때문에 많은 시간이 소요되고 정확한 용접하기 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 볼 밸브용 볼 육성용접을 균일하게 할 수 있는 로봇자동화 시스템을 개발하였다. 이 시스템은 용접토치를 장착한 용접용 로봇 6축, 포지셔너 회전을 위한 부가 2축, 제어장치 및 로봇경로는 오프라인 프로그램으로 구성되어 있다. CAD 도면 데이터를 오프라인 프로그램에 입력하여 로봇 교시점과 로봇 구동 소스를 얻을 수 있도록 하였고, 볼 육성용접 궤적은 Matlab을 통해 구현하였다. OLP 시스템을 통해 용접층 두께가 균일하게 얻으므로 용가재의 소모량을 약 20% 절약할 수 있었고, 모재와 용접봉 사이의 아크길이를 일정하게 유지하여 육성용접 불량율을 약 50% 정도 감소시켜 품질을 확보하였다. OLP를 활용한 육성용접 자동화 시스템을 통해 작업소요시간이 88시간에서 41시간으로 단축되어 생산성이 2.58배 향상 되었다.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 1996년도 특별강연 및 춘계학술발표 개요집
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• pp.96-98
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• 1996

Welding of corner area across the edge is a difficult problem in robotized arc welding system, especially when continuously-welded leakage-proof product is required. This paper presents the methodology of cooperation plan of an arc welding robot and 1 or 2 axis welding manipulators for corner area welding. Welding trajectory for the robot is generated using clothoid curves; symmetrical double clothoid curve or unsymmetrical clothoid curve depending on the nature of the workpiece. The clothoid curve is first formulated for the case of linear type positioning table and then applied to the case of rotary type manipulator. The methodology is then illustrated for practical downhand welding situations.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 1997년도 특별강연 및 추계학술발표 개요집
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• pp.205-209
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• 1997

One of the major important tasks in the robotic $CO_2$ arc welding process is to understand how process variables affected bead geometry and to subsequently develop the mathematical models to predict the desired bead dimensions. Experiment results are compared to outputs obtained using a set of published formulae relating input variables to output parameters and also investigated process variables on bead geometry for robotic $CO_2$ arc welding process The university of results obtained using empirical equations taken from existing models provided to be limited in predicting experimental bead shapes.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 1997년도 특별강연 및 추계학술발표 개요집
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• pp.229-233
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• 1997

The demand to increase productivity and quality, the shortage of skilled labour and the strict health and safety requirements have led to the development of the automated welding process to deal with many of the present problems of welded fabrication. To make effective use of the automated arc welding process, it is imperative that a mathematical model, which can be programmed easily and fed to the robot, should be developed. The objectives of the paper are to develop the mathematical equations (linear and curvilinear) for study of the relationship between process variables and bead geometry by employing a standard statistical package program, SAS and to choose the best model for automation of the $CO_2$ gas arc welding process. Mathematical models developed from experimental results can be employed to control the process variables in order to achieve the desired bead geometry based on weld quality criteria. Also these equations may prove useful and applicable for automatic control system and expert systems.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.923-928
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• 2003

This paper presents the motion control of a mobile robot with arc sensor for lattice type welding. Its dynamic equation and motion control method for welding speed and seam tracking are described. The motion control is realized in the view of keeping constant welding speed and precise target line even though the robot is driven along a straight line or comer. The mobile robot is modeled based on Lagrange equation under nonholonomic constraints and the model is represented in state space form. The motion control of the mobile robot is separated into three driving motions of straight locomotion, turning locomotion and torch slider controls. For the torch slider control, the proportional integral derivative (PID) control method is used. For the straight locomotion, a concept of decoupling method between input and output is adopted and for the turning locomotion, the turning speed is controlled according to the angular velocity value at each point of the comer with range of $90^{\circ}$ constrained to the welding speed. The proposed control methods are proved through simulation results and the results have proved that the mobile robot has enough ability to apply the lattice type welding line.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집B
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• pp.319-324
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• 2001

This paper presents the motion control of a mobile robot with arc sensor for lattice type welding. Its dynamic equation and motion control method for welding speed and seam tracking are described. The motion control is realized in the view of keeping constant welding speed and precise target line even though the robot is driven along a straight line or corner. The mobile robot is modeled based on Lagrange equation under nonholonomic constraints and the model is represented in state space form. The motion control of the mobile robot is separated into three driving motions of straight locomotion, turning locomotion and torch slider controls. For the torch slider control, the proportional integral derivative (PID) control method is used. For the straight locomotion, a concept of decoupling method between input and output is adopted and for the turning locomotion, the turning speed is controlled according to the angular velocity value at each point of the comer with range of $90^{\circ}$ constrained to the welding speed. The experiment has been done to verify the effectiveness of the proposed controllers. These results are shown to fit well by the simulation results.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1990년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 26-27 Oct. 1990
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• pp.356-361
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• 1990

This paper presents a new self organizing fuzzy linguistic control (SOFLC) strategy for application to an arc welding process control. The proposed SOFLC is based on on-line modification of the control rules according to the extent of deviation of the one step ahead predictive output of the process from the desired output. The Predictive output of the process is estimated by a fuzzy predictor which is updated from the input and output data of the process. The rule base of the fuzzy subsets describing the control rules is modified by the improving mechanism based on the hill climbing approach. Simulation results show that this proposed SOFLC improves the response of the process in presence of the variation of the process dynamic characteristics.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1987년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국과학기술대학, 충남; 16-17 Oct. 1987
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• pp.329-334
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• 1987

The purpose of this study is to monitor and control the back bead width in arc welding with consumable electrode for reduction of the occurrence of weld defect. The temperature of a point on the weldment surface is selected, as a monitoring parameter, and measured by an optical infra-red sensor. The correlation between the back bead width and the surface temperature is experimentally obtained for various thicknesses of the weldment. The welding travel speed and the surface temperature are taken, respectively, as an input and an output of the welding process under the stable condition of arc. A PI control scheme to maintain the surface temperature at the desired level is proposed by the experimental study.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.166-166
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• 2000

This paper describes for applications of neural networks in the field of arc welding. Conventional, automated process generally involves sophisticated sensing and control techniques applied to various processing parameters. Welding parameters affecting quality include the arc voltage, the welding current and the torch travel speed. The relationship between the welding parameters and weld qualify is not a direct one, and in addition, the effect of the weld parameter variables are not independent of the each other - changing the welding current will affect the arc voltage, and so on. Finally, a suitable proposal to improve the construction of the model has also been presented in the paper.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.68-80
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• 1996

When a workpiece is to be arc welded around the outside corner, continuous welding without welding seam in the neighborhood of comer still remains a very difficult technique. Skilled welders weld comers by delicate“hand-eye coordination”while turning the workpiece manually, However, there is not a very clear solution to this problem in robotized arc welding process. In order to solve this problem, the coordination of a robot and a positioner with one or two axes is necessary. This paper presents a method of continuous welding around the corner of workpiece using the coordinated motion of a robot and a positioner. The positioner is either revolute jointed or prismatic jointed. In this paper, a clothoid curve is chosen for welding trajectory. The clothoid curve is excellent in connecting straight and curved weld-lines with good continuity and accommodates various welding conditions. By using this welding trajectory, the deceleration, which leads to widening of the melt and the heat affected zone, at comer area is reduced with strategic rotation of robot torch in coordination with a positioner providing smooth transition of welding torch orientation. Two types of special clothoid curves are developed for different weld slope conditions. These clothoid curves are applied to the case of linear and rotary Positioners at arc welding robot work-cell.