Laminated wall scanner for recreational vehicles
AssigneeThor Tech, Inc.
InventorCarl Smith
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Abstract
A wall scanner system and method for scanning a body panel of an RV or other vehicle with one or more penetrative imaging sensors is disclosed. The body panel is scanned to identify the locations of one or more components within and/or behind the body panel so that a fabrication operation may be planned out to avoid the one or more components. The body panel may be disposed within a workable range of one or more industrial robots so that the robots may traverse the body panel with one or more penetrative imaging sensors. One or more industrial robots may be equipped with fabrication tools for carrying out the fabrication operation based at least in part on the scan results.
Claims20
A scanner system for scanning a body panel of an RV, the system comprising:
- a workstation for supporting the body panel of the RV;
- at least one industrial robot equipped with at least one penetrative imaging sensor for scanning the body panel;
- and
- a controller, wherein the controller is configured to:
- control the industrial robot to scan the body panel with the penetrative imaging sensor,
- identify at least one component within or behind the body panel that is detectable by the at least one penetrative imaging sensor, and
- plan a fabrication operation based at least in part on a detected location of the at least one component.
A method for scanning a body panel of an RV, the method comprising the steps of:
- disposing a body panel within a workable range of at least one industrial robot;
- scanning the body panel with at least one penetrative imaging sensor attached to the at least one industrial robot;
- identifying at least one component within or behind the body panel that is detectable by the at least one penetrative imaging sensor;
- and
- planning a fabrication operation based at least in part on a detected location of the at least one component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.