Automatic Path Planning for Door-Milling Application Using an Industrial Robot

Master's thesis Mechatronics MAS500 - University of Agder 2018 This report covers automatic path planning for a 6 degree of freedom industrial robot used in a milling application. The kinematics are derived for the ABB IRB6600 robot used in this master thesis. Different sensors for determining the work-object pose in relation to the robot are evaluated, and a suggested vision system is presented and tested. When industrial robots are used in high precision contact applications, such as milling, the robot stiffness must be considered. Therefore, a joint stiffness analysis is conducted for the ABB IRB6600. The results from the stiffness analysis are, in addition to the milling force data, use…