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An Adaptive Seam-Tracking System with Posture Estimation for Welding

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In this paper, a robotic seam tracking system with welding posture estimation is proposed that can adapt to different conditions encountered in the field of welding, such as uncertain working positions and complex workpiece shapes. In the proposed system, the target coordinate system of the welding torch is established in real-time at each welding position, and the rotation angles are obtained to change the welding posture of the robot. Gaussian kernel correlation filter is used to track the weld feature in real-time that improves the accuracy and robustness of welding seam tracking. Compared with morphological methods, this method can quickly and accurately find the position of the weld from the noisy image. Finally, experimental results show that the method can be used to calculate the welding posture, which meet the welding requirements of a complex environment.

The work in this paper is partially supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2019B090915001) and the Program of Foshan Innovation Team of Science and Technology (Grant No. 2015IT100072).

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Yang, Z., Yu, S., Guan, Y., Yang, Y., Cai, C., Zhang, T. (2020). An Adaptive Seam-Tracking System with Posture Estimation for Welding. In: Chan, C.S., et al. Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12595. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66645-3_8

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