Automated peening
AssigneeROLLS-ROYCE plc
InventorsMax B. Keedwell, Diego A. Pena Castillo
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Abstract
An automated peening method comprising: providing, adjacent a surface of a workpiece, a robotic arm having a peening tool attached thereto; defining a peening area of the surface of the workpiece; calculating a peening path for the peening tool over the peening area, the peening path substantially covering the peening area and comprising a sequence of movement patterns, wherein a geometric variable of one or more of the movement patterns is modified using an output of a random number generator; and controlling the robotic arm to move the peening tool over the surface of the workpiece to follow the peening path.
Claims10
An automated peening method comprising the steps of:
- providing, adjacent a surface of a workpiece, a robotic arm having a peening tool attached thereto;
- defining a peening area of the surface of the workpiece;
- calculating a peening path for the peening tool over the peening area, the peening path substantially covering the peening area and comprising a sequence of movement patterns, wherein a geometric variable of one or more of the movement patterns is modified using an output of a random number generator, wherein each movement pattern comprises one or more legs, wherein the geometrical variable of a curved leg of the one or more legs modified using the output of the random number generator is a radius of curvature;
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- controlling the robotic arm to move the peening tool over the surface of the workpiece to follow the peening path.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a controller of a robotic arm having a peening tool attached thereto, cause performance of an automated peening method comprising the steps of:
- providing, adjacent a surface of a workpiece, a robotic arm having a peening tool attached thereto;
- defining a peening area of the surface of the workpiece;
- calculating a peening path for the peening tool over the peening area, the peening path substantially covering the peening area and comprising a sequence of movement patterns, wherein a geometric variable of one or more of the movement patterns is modified using an output of a random number generator, wherein each movement pattern comprises one or more legs, wherein the geometrical variable is a radius of curvature of a curved leg;
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- controlling the robotic arm to move the peening tool over the surface of the workpiece to follow the peening path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.