2024: Digital twin for validation of AI-based motion planning and control for robot-assisted processing of curved surfaces
There are many areas of automation in manufacturing that cannot be automated, or the cost of automation is extremely high for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies. One such problem is material processing with robot manipulators where the object has a complex and potentially changeable form. For instance, the object has curved surfaces, and the robot’s end-effector tool needs to precisely follow this curved surface to complete a task such as milling. The goal of this project is to develop a digital twin of robot-assisted processing of curved surfaces. The digital twin will then be used to test, validate, and benchmark motion planning algorithms to achieve an accurate arbitrary path following for the end-effector along a curved surface and collision-free motion.