Robotic machining in correlation with a 3D scanner

Abstract The article presents an original method of communication and data exchange in a robotic machining station consisting of two robots, a positioner and a 3D optic scanner. The task of one of the robots, equipped with a 3D optic scanner, was to receive point cloud of a detail (mould) attached to the positioner table. After detail digitalisation, the received point cloud was adjusted to (compared with) a model detail in the form of a CAD file in the Atos Professional software. In the software, casting material excesses were received in places selected on the detail. Values of the excesses and their coordinates were saved in the script and sent to the robot controller using TCP/IP protocol. The other of robots, equipped with the force control addition and the option of obtaining various processing tools, received sent excess and its coordinates. The other robot adjusted the processing parameters to random excesses, the value of which was received from measurements of the optic scanner of the first robot.