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posted on 2016-06-17, 10:58 authored by Eugene Kalt, Radmehr MonfaredRadmehr Monfared, Michael Jackson
In high-value manufacturing sectors, many manufacturing processes are still performed manually, such as polishing operations for small metallic parts. Increasing volume, the need for consistency in quality, and health and safety issues are some of the reasons for industry to search urgently for alternative solutions for manual polishing processes. This article reports the development of an intelligent automated polishing system to achieve consistent surface quality and removal of superficial defects from high-value components, such as those used in aerospace industry. The article reports an innovative method to capture manual polishing processes by skilled operators. The captured polishing parameters are then used to develop and control a robotic polishing system that can adopt various polishing patterns. A brief summary of existing fully and semi-automated polishing systems and their inadequacy for industrial applications are discussed. The need for building automation system based on manual operations are explained and a systematic data capturing process for a specific aerospace-based component is defined. The development of the process capturing device is explained, the data analysis and interpretations are discussed and the migration from manual operation to an automated polishing system is reported. Further detailed information is given in relation with combining data from various sensors and building of an automated system based on learning from manual operations. The research results are also briefly discussed and conclusions are drawn regarding applicability of automated systems for highly skilled manual operations.

History

School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Proceedings of the 16th international conference of the european society for precision engineering and nanotechnology

Citation

KALT, E., MONFARED, R. and JACKSON, M.R., 2016. Development of an intelligent automated polishing system. IN: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (EUSPEN), East Midlands Conferences, University of Nottingham, May 30th-June 3rd.

Publisher

Euspen

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-05-03

Publication date

2016

Notes

This is a conference paper.

Language

  • en

Location

East Midlands Conferences, University of Nottingham