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Intelligent surface-normal adjustment system and application in aeronautical drilling robot

  • Rui Zhang*
  • , Peijiang Yuan
  • , Maozhen Gong
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Aeronautical drilling robot has been widely adopted in aircraft manufacturing with its high efficiency and reliability. Automatic drilling, however, requires the drill bit to be perpendicular to the curved surface of fuselage. In this paper, we present an intelligent surface-normal adjustment system to deal with the problem. This system calculates surface-normal vector by obtaining three measurement positions with laser range sensors and provides correction values to an innovative binary angular adjustment mechanism to regulate the feed direction of the drilling bit in real-time. We carried out a number of experiments on the aeronautical drilling robot. The experimental results demonstrate that this system can decrease the surface-normal error to less than ±0.5° and well meet the demand of modern aircraft manufacturing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2012 International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Engineering Applications, ISDEA 2012
Pages696-699
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2nd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Engineering Applications, ISDEA 2012 - Sanya, Hainan, China
Duration: 6 Jan 20127 Jan 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2012 International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Engineering Applications, ISDEA 2012

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Engineering Applications, ISDEA 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySanya, Hainan
Period6/01/127/01/12

Keywords

  • Aeronautical Drilling Robot
  • Laser range sensor
  • Surface-normal Adjustment

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