Asee peer logo

PROGRAMMING A FANUC INDUSTRIAL ROBOT FOR INCREMENTAL SHEET FORMING

Download Paper |

Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Project Based and Experiential Learning in Manufacturing

Page Count

11

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41846

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/41846

Download Count

1245

Paper Authors

biography

Asghar Rezasoltani Western Kentucky University

visit author page

Assistant professor at Western Kentucky University

visit author page

author page

Ryker Boehm Western Kentucky University

author page

Adam Patterson Western Kentucky University

Download Paper |

Abstract

Robotic Incremental Sheet forming (ISF) is an ideal method for prototyping parts in various applications such as aerospace, automotive, and medical. While the process needs strong and rigid industrial robots, some industrial robot manufacturers haven’t developed any add-on designed explicitly for ISF in their software. Thus the programming of the robots for ISF can be challenging and needs innovative design and programming methods when done in the robot’s original software. Although third-party software designed explicitly for ISF is available in the market, it is not entirely compatible with some robots.

In this research, a robust industrial robot, FANUC R-2000ic 165F, was programmed and used by two mechanical engineering undergraduate students under the supervision of a faculty to perform incremental sheet forming on the AL3003 sheet. The innovative design and programming strategies used for robot programming are presented in this research.

Rezasoltani, A., & Boehm, R., & Patterson, A. (2022, August), PROGRAMMING A FANUC INDUSTRIAL ROBOT FOR INCREMENTAL SHEET FORMING Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41846

ASEE holds the copyright on this document. It may be read by the public free of charge. Authors may archive their work on personal websites or in institutional repositories with the following citation: © 2022 American Society for Engineering Education. Other scholars may excerpt or quote from these materials with the same citation. When excerpting or quoting from Conference Proceedings, authors should, in addition to noting the ASEE copyright, list all the original authors and their institutions and name the host city of the conference. - Last updated April 1, 2015