| Sub-Project name: | Adaptive control of the robot for turbine blade finishing |
| Work package: | I. Robotics and Cybernetics for Industry/Society 4.0 |
| ID code: | TN01000024/20 |
| Duration: | 01/2021 – 12/2022 |
| Principal investigator: | Ing. Jan Koubek, Ph.D. (FME CTU) |
| Participants: | Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) – Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME) LaserTherm spol. s r.o. – Technology department |
| Results: | Adaptive control of the robot for turbine blade finishing, Gfunk, 2021 |
Abstract:
High-tech parts for power generation industry (e.g. steam turbine blades) are treated with a protective coat made of special abrasion-resistant materials. The coating layer has allowance to the ideal part shape. This allowance have to remove using machining process (grinding or milling) to reach the final part geometry. Today, this operation is done manually. The main reason for manual operation is that the blade is highly distorted due to part thermal load during previous operations and automatic tool path generation is complicated. The human worker is able to ensure tangential joining of all machined surfaced and respect the distorted blade shape. The goal of the project is to develop method for automatic modification of the theoretical automatically generated tools path for machining of the distorted parts with respect to the seamless linking of the machined and non-machined surfaces.
This project is supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic within the programme National Centres of Competence 1: Support programme for applied research, experimental development and innovation.