Detection of Welds in Automated Welding

Abstract

This article deals with automated welding conceived as a robotic welding cell. Laser scanners used in automated welding are described in the main part of the article. Then, the control scheme of the robotic welding is defined. Several simple algorithms are proposed for the data processing. Emphasis in these algorithms has been placed on simplicity, so that they can run online. Algorithms have been verified on several scenarios.