Research on the automatic planning of arc welding robot welding path for space weld

Abstract

This paper presents a new developed system that can auto-matically plan welding path of space weld for arc welding robot.Using VB6.0 as the programming platform,the system can generate the position ang posture file of welding torch directly and automatically from a three dimension solid model ,and ulteriorly convert the file into the robot program. In the experimental welding of the combined use of UP-6 arc welding robot system and S-350 MAG welding system, the correctness of the system have been validated.