Selection of Robotic Machining Parameters with Pneumatic Feed Force Progression

Abstract

The subject matter of the above paper presents part of the research carried out as part of the robotization of the manufacturing processes of aircraft engine components. The paper concerns robotic deburring of the V2500 diffuser’s sharp edges. The diffuser is a precision casting characterized by a slight variation in the geometry of the workpiece depending on the accuracy of the casting molds and the phenomenon of shrinkage during solidification. Due to the small degree of deburring and thus low cutting forces, robotic machining with the FDB150 tool was used. This tool is characterized by compliance with adjustable force, which enables machining of workpieces with a randomly changing shape. The authors of the paper propose a procedure for carrying out work allowing for the selection of suboptimal process parameters. In the analyzed case, these parameters are the speed of movement of the characteristic point of the tool (TCP) and the tool/workpiece contact force. The proposed procedure for determining the parameters of the force and speed of movement allowed for indicating a set of parameters ensuring the performance of the product in accordance with the requirements defined in the documentation. The proposed solution is of an engineering nature and is not a classic search for the extreme of a function from the point of view of the adopted criteria (quality indicators). Its advantage is simplicity, which is very important from the point of view of an industrial application.

Automation, Operation and Maintenance of Control and Communication Systems

“…The paper [7] entitled "Selection of Robotic Machining Parameters with Pneumatic Feed Force Progression" concerns the robotic deburring of the V2500 diffuser's sharp edges. The paper's authors propose a procedure for carrying out work allowing for the selection of suboptimal process parameters.…”