A crawling welding robot, including an adjustable magnetic adhesion module, wheel-tracked walking mechanisms, a crawler frame, and a welding load device, wherein the welding load device is disposed on the crawler frame; the wheel-tracked walking mechanisms are disposed at two opposite ends of the crawler frame for supplying power for crawling of the crawler frame; and the adjustable magnetic adhesion module is disposed on the crawler frame and disposed between the two wheel-tracked walking mechanisms.

A system and method of enhanced automated welding of a first workpiece and a second workpiece are provided. The method comprises providing a system for intelligent robot-based welding of the first workpiece and the second workpiece. The method further comprises determining a geometrical location of the first workpiece and the second workpiece to be welded at a welding sequence based a predetermined process variable. The method further comprises adjusting the predetermined process variable based on the geometrical location of the first and second workpieces to define an actual process variable. The method further comprises welding a first portion of the first and second workpieces with the actual process variable to define a first welded portion. The method further comprises determining a weld quality of the first welded portion.

A clamp system and method for measurement and control of welding a first substrate to a second substrate is provided. The system comprises a squeeze clamp having to a first end and a second end. The system further comprises a motor connected to the squeeze clamp such that the first and second ends are movable to clamp the first substrate to the second substrate. The system further comprises at least one of an electromagnetic flux sensor, a current sensor, a position sensor, and a gap sensor disposed on one of the first and second ends for determining a first measured variable between the first and second substrates. The system further comprises a controller to control the motor to clamp the first substrate to the second substrate based on the first measured variable. The controller is in communication with the electromagnetic flux sensor, the current sensor, and the gap sensor.

The invention relates to a method for monitoring a joining seam, in particular during joining by means of a laser beam, wherein in the processing direction before a processing point a joining site is measured in order to detect the position and geometry thereof, at least one position of a joining seam is determined from the position of the joining point, and in the processing direction after the processing point the joining seam is measured in order to detect the geometry thereof at the determined position. The invention further relates to a device for carrying out said method and to a laser processing head equipped with such a device.

A welding automation system that uses the shape of a welding region includes a welding torch that is installed in a robot and welds a parent metal fixed on a mounting part. A line laser emits a laser beam to a welding line region that is spaced apart from a welding point of the welding torch. A detector images and detects, from a predetermined angle, the shape of the laser beam. A control unit receives information from the detector and controls transportation of the robot and drives the welding torch along the welding region so that the welding torch corresponds with the welding region. The welding torch is installed on a slider that moves vertically and laterally relative to the robot. The control unit controls movement of the robot and/or the mounting part to correspond to transportation coordinates obtained by the calculation unit, and controls driving of the welding torch.

A welding program is created for performing spot welding by a program creation device. The program creation device includes a display unit configured to display an image, and an image generation unit configured to generate image data of a product model before being subjected to spot welding in accordance with shape data on a product and display the product model on the display unit, a display control unit configured to make a workpiece having a selected surface in the product model to be semitransparent, a welding portion setting unit configured to set welding portions to be allotted for the selected surface in the product model, and a program creation unit configured to create the welding program including related data for a welding robot with regard to the set welding portions.

Provided is a method of welding laminated metal foils that can prevent blowholes and spatter from being formed. It is a method of welding laminated metal foils sandwiched between a pair of metal plates to the pair of metal plates. The method of welding laminated metal foils sandwiched between a pair of metal plates to the pair of metal plates includes locally pressing and crimping the laminated metal foils sandwiched between the pair of metal plates at a welding point in a laminating direction, and welding the crimped pair of metal plates and laminated metal foils at the welding point.

The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a robotic welding system to weld pipe sections wherein the pipe sections are held in fixed relation to each other by a plurality of stitches at a seam between the pipe sections. The method comprises rotating the pipe sections so a camera may determine the seam position, moving a torch arm and welding torch so that the torch is over one of the plurality of stitches, adjusting welding parameters and determining stitch start when welding torch is over a stitch and further adjusting welding parameters and determining stitch end when welding torch moves past one of the plurality of stitches.

An automated welding system for sealing high level radioactive waste containers in the field at the nuclear plant site. The system includes a programmable portable robotic welder comprising a multi-jointed articulating robotic arm. A welding head operable to form a weld is mounted to the arm. Operation of the robotic welder and ancillary components is controlled by a programmable controller which implements a welding plan. In one embodiment, a circumferentially-extending lid-to-shell hermetic seal weld may be formed by the robotic welder. The weld is completed in multiple welding passes through the weld joint between the lid and shell guided by an automated joint tracking sensor linked to the controller. The highly portable robotic welder is detachably mountable on the lid to perform the welding. An automated pivotable cable-conduit management apparatus keeps electrically conductive wiring and flow tubing out of the path of the rotating robotic arm during welding.

Embodiments may be used to evaluate completed inspection jobs using updated pipe segment data obtained by inspecting a rehabilitated pipe after completion of a project. One embodiment provides a method of generating an infrastructure project summary, including: collecting, using one or more sensors of an inspection robot, pipe segment data relating to the one or more pipe segments; the second pipe segment data comprising one or more of laser condition assessment data and sonar condition assessment data; generating infrastructure summary data for at least a part of the network using the pipe segment data, comparing, using a processor, first and second infrastructure summary data; generating, using the processor, a parameter of the infrastructure project summary based on the comparing; and including the parameter of the infrastructure project summary in a project summary report. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.