Increasing of the Industrial Robot Movement Accuracy at the Incremental Forming Process

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadezhda A. Sazonnikova ◽  
Vladimir N. Ilyuhin ◽  
Sergey V. Surudin ◽  
Nikita N. Svinaryov
Keyword(s):  
Incremental Forming ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Movement Accuracy

Driving – A Flexible Manufacturing Method for Individualized Sheet Metal Products

2010 ◽  
Vol 447-448 ◽  
pp. 795-800
Author(s):  
Daniel Scherer ◽  
Z. Yang ◽  
H. Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Flexible Manufacturing ◽  
Incremental Forming ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
General Information ◽  
Work Piece ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Manufacturing Method ◽  
Metal Products

This paper provides general information about the qualification of driving as an on-demand manufacturing concept for the production of individualized sheet metal products. Driving allows the creation of almost any 2D or 3D geometry, but it is a highly interactive, manual production process. Due to the inevitable variations of the incremental forming process (mechanical properties, tribology, wear etc.) and the high number of forming steps, it cannot be automated by traditional approaches. At the Institute of Metal Forming and Casting (Technische Universitaet Muenchen) a kraftformer machine has been equipped with measuring and controlling instrumentation. An optical online measurement system is installed to detect any geometry deformation of the current work piece and to visualize the deviation between the actual and the stored reference geometry during the whole production process. This variance comparison is the first step for planning any following incremental forming actions based on acquired and/or learned knowledge. The second step is the integration of an industrial robot for work piece handling and the automation of the whole manufacturing process. The last step is the integration of neural networks to predict production strategies for any desired unique geometry.

Method for Manufacturing Custom-Shaped Prosthetic Parts from Titanium Alloys by Incremental Forming Using Industrial Robots

2014 ◽  
Vol 555 ◽  
pp. 575-579
Author(s):  
Carmen Cotigă ◽  
Octavian Bologa ◽  
Gabriel Racz ◽  
Radu Breaz
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Incremental Forming ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Incremental Sheet Forming ◽  
Human Medicine ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
New Class ◽  
Titanium Alloy Ti6al4v

The last decade has shown an increasing interest in a new class of forming processes known as Incremental Sheet forming (ISF). A possible application for this new procedure, targeted by the authors of this paper, is the manufacturing of custom-shaped prosthetic parts for use in various areas of human medicine. Such prostheses can have a functional role, when they target the replacing of a functional component of the human body, or an esthetic role, when they target the solving of problems related to the appearance of the human body. In this paper the authors aim to determine the strain hardening curves for the titanium alloy Ti6Al4V at room temperature and at 800°C. The incremental forming process will be performed by means of an industrial robot.

Robot-Forming - An Incremental Forming Process Using an Industrial Robot by Means of DELMIA Software Package

2013 ◽  
Vol 371 ◽  
pp. 416-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ionut Chera ◽  
Octavian Bologa ◽  
Sever Gabriel Racz ◽  
Radu Eugen Breaz
Keyword(s):  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Incremental Forming ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Metal Part ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Program Code ◽  
Metal Parts ◽  
Sheet Metal Parts ◽  
Custom Made

The purpose of this research is to present an alternative method for manufacturing sheet metal parts using an asymmetric incremental forming process by means of an industrial robot. This method is based on designing, simulating and generating the toolpath for the tool attached to the robot using DELMIA software package. The proposed approach allows users to check for system collisions, robot joins limitations and singularity problems. After a comprehensive simulation of the movements of the robot is performed, the program code can be generated by means of a specific DELMIA function. The program can be used afterwards to control the robot during the experimental work. In order to demonstrate the capabilities of robot-forming, a truncated pyramid sheet metal part was manufactured using a custom made stand and with the help of a KUKA KR6 anthropomorphic robot.

scholarly journals Incremental forming using KUKA KR210-2 industrial robot - research regarding design rules and process modelling

2021 ◽  
Vol 343 ◽  
pp. 08005
Author(s):  
Alexandru Bârsan ◽  
Sever-Gabriel Racz ◽  
Radu Breaz
Keyword(s):  
Incremental Forming ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
Prototype Development ◽  
Small Series ◽  
Metal Forming Process ◽  
Combined Movements

Incremental sheet forming (ISF) process show a great potential in the manufacturing of small series production or prototype development parts. One of the sheet metal forming process, where the contact between punch and metal sheet is in a single point, is known as single point incremental forming (SPIF). The part is manufacture with a simple tool, known as punch, that performs a series of combined movements on the vertically and horizontally directions. The paper introduces a study regarding the design rules and process modelling of this unconventional process, by means of a KUKA KR210-2 industrial robot as technological equipment able to control the correlated movement of the punch. Supplementary, the design of the experimental layout, the process simulations and the singularity problems are considered.

Comparison between an Advanced Numerical Simulation of Sheet Incremental Forming Using Adaptive Remeshing and Experimental Results

2013 ◽  
Vol 554-557 ◽  
pp. 1375-1381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Giraud-Moreau ◽  
Abel Cherouat ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Houman Borouchaki
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Numerical Model ◽  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Metal Forming ◽  
Tool Path ◽  
Incremental Forming ◽  
Computation Time ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Adaptive Remeshing

Recently, new sheet metal forming technique, incremental forming has been introduced. It is based on using a single spherical tool, which is moved along CNC controlled tool path. During the incremental forming process, the sheet blank is fixed in sheet holder. The tool follows a certain tool path and progressively deforms the sheet. Nowadays, numerical simulations of metal forming are widely used by industry to predict the geometry of the part, stresses and strain during the forming process. Because incremental forming is a dieless process, it is perfectly suited for prototyping and small volume production [1, 2]. On the other hand, this process is very slow and therefore it can only be used when a slow series production is required. As the sheet incremental forming process is an emerging process which has a high industrial interest, scientific efforts are required in order to optimize the process and to increase the knowledge of this process through experimental studies and the development of accurate simulation models. In this paper, a comparison between numerical simulation and experimental results is realized in order to assess the suitability of the numerical model. The experimental investigation is realized using a three-axis CNC milling machine. The forming tool consists in a cylindrical rotating punch with a hemispherical head. A subroutine has been developed to describe the tool path from CAM procedure. A numerical model has been developed to simulate the sheet incremental forming process. The finite element code Abaqus explicit has been used. The simulation of the incremental forming process stays a complex task and the computation time is often prohibitive for many reasons. During this simulation, the blank is deformed by a sequence of small increments that requires many numerical increments to be performed. Moreover, the size of the tool diameter is generally very small compared to the size of the metal sheet and thus the contact zone between the tool and the sheet is limited. As the tool deforms almost every part of the sheet, small elements are required everywhere in the sheet resulting in a very high computation time. In this paper, an adaptive remeshing method has been used to simulate the incremental forming process. This strategy, based on adaptive refinement and coarsening procedures avoids having an initially fine mesh, resulting in an enormous computing time. Experiments have been carried out using aluminum alloy sheets. The final geometrical shape and the thickness profile have been measured and compared with the numerical results. These measurements have allowed validating the proposed numerical model. References [1] M. Yamashita, M. Grotoh, S.-Y. Atsumi, Numerical simulation of incremental forming of sheet metal, J. Processing Technology, No. 199 (2008), p. 163 172. [2] C. Henrard, A.M. Hbraken, A. Szekeres, J.R. Duflou, S. He, P. Van Houtte, Comparison of FEM Simulations for the Incremental Forming Process, Advanced Materials Research, 6-8 (2005), p. 533-542.

Stress Analysis of Sheet Metal Vibration Incremental Forming

2010 ◽  
Vol 154-155 ◽  
pp. 166-170
Author(s):  
Gai Pin Cai ◽  
Ning Yuan Zhu ◽  
Na Wen
Keyword(s):  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Incremental Forming ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Technical Parameters ◽  
Vibration Technique ◽  
Low Frequency Vibration ◽  
Metal Deformation ◽  
Angle Effect ◽  
Forming Angle

As a non-homogenous force stresses during incremental forming, sheet metal easily tended to instability, and some defects, such as deposition, wrinkle and fracture, would appear. If the vibration technique was combined the incremental forming process, its deformation mechanism would be different from that of the old process, and sheet metal deformation quality was also risen. Then some mechanical equations were built by force analyzed on element in local contact zone of die head forcing down. According to reasonable hypothesis and simplified, the equations were solved. Some stress-time curves of the element were obtained by given process parameters, vibrational parameters and time parameters. It is shown from analysis that stress variety of the element is closely related to amplitude, frequency and forming angle, effect of sheet metal vibration incremental forming with high frequency vibration is more superior than that of with low frequency vibration; only when vibrational parameters are reasonably matching technical parameters, the effective vibration incremental forming can be obtained.

Geometry Compensation Methods for Increasing the Accuracy of the SPIF Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 883 ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Yannick Carette ◽  
Marthe Vanhulst ◽  
Joost R. Duflou
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
Incremental Forming ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Single Point Incremental Forming ◽  
Calculation Methods ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Complex Deformation ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
Compensation Methods ◽  
Deformation Mechanics

Despite years of supporting research, commercial use of the Single Point Incremental Forming process remains very limited. The promised flexibility and lack of specific tooling is contradicted by its highly complex deformation mechanics, resulting in a process that is easy to implement but where workpiece accuracy is very difficult to control. This paper looks at geometry compensation as a viable control strategy to increase the accuracy of produced workpieces. The input geometry of the process can be compensated using knowledge about the deformations occurring during production. The deviations between the nominal CAD geometry and the actual produced geometry can be calculated in a variety of different ways, thus directly influencing the compensation. Two different alignment methods and three deviation calculation methods are explained in detail. Six combined deviation calculation methods are used to generate compensated inputs, which are experimentally produced and compared to the uncompensated part. All different methods are able to noticeably improve the accuracy, with the production alignment and closest point deviation calculation achieving the best results

Effect of process parameters on formability in two-point incremental forming-machining of planar and twisted AA5083 blades

2022 ◽  
pp. 095440542110697
Author(s):  
Hossein Ghorbani-Menghari ◽  
Mehrdad Azadipour ◽  
Mehran Ghasempour-Mouziraji ◽  
Young Hoon Moon ◽  
Ji Hoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Tool Path ◽  
Incremental Forming ◽  
Dimensional Accuracy ◽  
Numerical Control ◽  
Machining Process ◽  
Curved Surface ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Forming Temperature ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
Tool Diameter

The deformation machining process (DMP) involves machining and incremental forming of thin structures. It can be applied for manufacturing products such as curved-surface blades without using 5-axis computerised numerical control machines. This work presents the effect of tool diameter and forming temperature on spring-back and dimensional accuracy of a simple fabricated part. The results of the first phase of the study are utilised to design the fabrication process of a curved surface blade. A feature-based algorithm is used to design the tool path for the forming process. The dimensional accuracy of the final product is improved through warm forming, two-point incremental forming, and extension of the bending zone to the outside of the product edges. The results show that DMP can be used to fabricate complex curved-surface workpieces with acceptable dimensional accuracy.

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