Multifunctional device for carrying out automatic riveting process by numerical control and method thereof

Multifunctional device for automatic riveting by numerical control, applicable to the union by means of riveting of metallic pieces, carbon fiber pieces, glass fiber pieces or other pieces with strict manufacturing tolerances such as those pieces required in the aerospace industry;

• the device comprising a machine or robot (1, 5, 6, 7) provided with a high precision positioning system, moved by numerical control and provided with a head (3) which is applied to the pieces to treat (4);
• wherein the head (3) presents a plurality of single-function modules (8), each of them carrying out consecutive operations on a single work point in such a way that said single-function modules (8) are presented to said work point by the positioning system;
• the positioning system comprises a numerical control Cartesian machine, gantry, portal, “C”, or other, a parallel kinematics machine or robot, a precise articulated robot, or a machine or robot with sufficient precision and repetitiveness for being applied to large structures with strict tolerances;
• while the different single-function modules (8) are arranged on a frame (9) which is rigidly and precisely joined to the union flange of the positioning system, said modules (8) being located transversely, longitudinally or in a matrix on the frame (9), or being adapted to the accessibility limitations imposed by the piece to join or the securing tool for it.