Automated material welding
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMichael Benosa Monjardin, LiCen Mu, Mingman Li, Miao Zhang, Susan Zhai, Jia Yu Zheng
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Automated material welding including starting a welding operation, scanning a weld in-progress, creating a simulation of the weld in-progress, detecting a flaw in the weld in-progress according to the scanning and the simulation, remediating the weld in-progress, and completing the welding operation.
Claims15
A computer implemented method for automated material welding, the method comprising:
- collecting a reference scan of parts prior to starting a welding operation;
- starting the welding operation;
- scanning a weld;
- creating a machine learning simulation of the appearance of the weld;
- detecting a flaw in the weld according to the scanning and simulation;
- remediating the flaw, wherein the flaw is remediated according to the reference scan of the parts;
- and
- completing the welding operation.
A computer program product for automated material welding, the computer program product comprising one or more computer readable storage medium and stored program instructions on the one or more computer readable storage devices, the stored program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to collect a reference scan of parts prior to starting a welding operation;
- program instructions to start the welding operation;
- program instructions to scan a weld;
- program instructions to create a machine learning simulation of appearance of the weld;
- program instructions to detect a flaw in the weld according to the scanning and simulation;
- program instructions to remediate the flaw, wherein the flaw is remediated according to the reference scan of the parts;
- and
- program instructions to complete the welding operation.
A computer system for automated material welding, the computer system comprising:
- one or more computer processors;
- one or more computer readable storage devices;
- and
- stored program instructions on the one or more computer readable storage devices for execution by the one or more computer processors, the stored program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to collect a reference scan of parts prior to starting a welding operation;
- program instructions to start the welding operation;
- program instructions to scan a weld;
- program instructions to create a machine learning simulation of appearance of the weld;
- program instructions to detect a flaw in the weld according to the scanning and simulation;
- program instructions to remediate the flaw, wherein the flaw is remediated according to the reference scan of the parts;
- and
- program instructions to complete the welding operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.