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An automated solution for fixtureless sheet metal forming

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posted on 2015-06-24, 12:43 authored by Balaji Ilangovan, Radmehr MonfaredRadmehr Monfared, Michael Jackson
Manual forming of sheet metal parts through traditional panel beating is a highly skilled profession used in many industries, particularly for sample manufacturing or repair and maintenance. However, this skill is becoming gradually isolated mainly due to the high cost and lack of expertise. Nonetheless, a cost-effective and flexible approach to forming sheet metal parts could significantly assist various industries by providing a method for fast prototyping sheet metal parts. The development of a new fixtureless sheet metal forming approach is discussed in this article. The proposed approach, named Mechatroforming®, consists of integrated mechanisms to manipulate sheet metal parts by a robotic arm under a controlled hammering tool. The method includes mechatronics-based monitoring and control systems for (near) real-time prediction and control of incremental deformations of parts. This article includes description of the proposed approach, the theoretical and modelling backgrounds used to predict the forming, skills learned from manual operations, and proposed automation system being built.

Funding

The authors acknowledge support from the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Intelligent Automation in undertaking this research work under grant reference number EP/IO33467/1.

History

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volume

82

Issue

1-4

Pages

315 - 326

Citation

ILANGOVAN, B., MONFARED, R. and JACKSON, M., 2016. An automated solution for fixtureless sheet metal forming. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 82 (1-4), pp.315-326

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Springer (© The Authors 2015)

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2015-05-21

Publication date

2015-06-11

Notes

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

ISSN

0268-3768

eISSN

1433-3015

Language

  • en

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