Automatic Robotic Spray Painting of Low Volume High Variant Parts

Abstract

With the advance in IT technology sensors and processing power exist to achieve fully automated robot programming in industrial tasks. This paper reports on the EU-project FlexPaint, which devised a methodology to automatically generate robot programs for spray painting of unknown parts. The solution uses four steps: laser triangulation sensing, geometric feature detection, tool path planning, and the generation of the collision-free executable robot program. Demonstrations at industrial partners show the results.