08.08.2019 – At the two-day Kuka in-house exhibition iimotion days in Augsburg, Boll Automation GmbH in cooperation with Automation W+R GmbH presented the collaborative robot RoboNDT – a mobile system for collaborative air-ultrasonic testing of fiber-reinforced plastics.
The RoboNDT convinces by:
- Location- and component-flexible applicability
- Partial automation of the inspection process through the combination of innovative air-ultrasonic inspection and MRK robotics
- Automated classification of detected defects from ultrasonic data
The system is based on an LBR iiwa and uses a 3D sensor for the scanning process, as well as a newly developed air-ultrasonic sensor for the inspection process.
The use of RoboNDT consists of five steps:
- Manual positioning of the system in front of the test object
- 3D scan of the test object. For this purpose, the first scan positions are taught in by the operator. In a measurement run based on the taught-in measurement poses, the 3D scan is performed
- Path generation for the inspection process based on the 3D scan
- Execution of the automatic air ultrasonic inspection
- Classification of the defects detected in the ultrasonic data
The companies Boll Automation and Automation W+R GmbH, as members of the Autision Group, combine robotics, machine vision and metrology and thus offer extensive expertise.
