Deburring control device, and deburring system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12496683-B2
Application number	US-202118044142-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 4, 2021
Priority date	Oct 9, 2020
Publication date	Dec 16, 2025
Grant date	Dec 16, 2025

Abstract

The objective of the present invention is to provide a deburring control device capable of easily identifying the cause of a deburring failure. A deburring control device according to one aspect of the present disclosure controls deburring processing for removing burrs on a workpiece by moving a deburring tool along a ridge line of the workpiece by means of a robot, and is provided with: an offset amount calculating unit for calculating an offset amount between the actual path of the robot and a taught path thereof; a pressing force acquiring unit for acquiring the pressing force of the deburring tool; a rotational speed acquiring unit for acquiring the rotational speed of the deburring tool; a failure detecting unit for detecting a deburring failure, in which the deburring processing could not be performed appropriately, on the basis of the offset amount, the pressing force, and the rotational speed; and a recording unit for recording a failure reason, which is the reason for the failure detecting unit determining the deburring failure, when the deburring failure is detected.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A deburring control device for controlling a deburring process for deburring a workpiece by causing a robot to move a deburring tool along a ridge line of the workpiece, the deburring control device comprising:
a displacement amount calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of displacement of an actual trajectory of the robot from a taught trajectory; a pressing force acquisition unit configured to acquire a pressing force that the deburring tool applies; a rotation speed acquisition unit configured to acquire a rotation speed of the deburring tool; a defect detection unit configured to detect a deburring defect resulting from failure to appropriately perform the deburring process, in all cases of an excess of the amount of displacement, an excess of the pressing force, a shortfall of the pressing force, an excess of a differential value of the pressing force, a shortfall of the differential value of the pressing force, an excess of the rotation speed, and a shortfall of the rotation speed; and a recording unit configured to record, in response to detection of the deburring defect, a reason of a detection of the deburring defect by the defect detection unit.

2 . The deburring control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a defect position locating unit configured to locate a defect position where the deburring defect has been caused, wherein the recording unit further records the defect position located by the defect position locating unit.

3 . The deburring control device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a processing position acquisition unit configured to acquire an actual position of the deburring tool, wherein the defect position locating unit determines, from among positions of the deburring tool acquired by the processing position acquisition unit, one position at which the deburring tool was at a time of acquisition of the amount of displacement, the pressing force, or the rotation speed that has been determined to indicate the deburring defect by the defect detection unit, to be the defect position.

4 . The deburring control device according to claim 2 , wherein
the defect position locating unit locates the defect position based on image information acquired from a visual sensor that captures an image of the workpiece.

5 . The deburring control device according claim 2 , further comprising:
an interruption control unit configured to interrupt the deburring process and retract the deburring tool, in response to detection of the deburring defect; and a restart control unit configured to restart, after interruption of the deburring process, the deburring process from the defect position.

6 . The deburring control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an interruption control unit configured to interrupt the deburring process and retract the deburring tool, in response to detection of the deburring defect.

7 . The deburring control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the pressing force acquisition unit acquires the pressing force from a force-torque sensor attached to the robot.

8 . A deburring system comprising:
the deburring control device according to claim 1 ; and a robot controllable by the deburring control device and configured to move the deburring tool along the ridge line of the workpiece.

Assignees

• Fanuc Corp

Inventors

• Gu Yihua
• Satou Takashi

Classifications

• B24B49/16

  taking regard of the load · CPC title

• B24B49/12

  involving optical means · CPC title

• B24B49/006

  taking regard of the speed · CPC title

• B24B9/005

  for mass articles · CPC title

• B24B51/00 Primary

  Arrangements for automatic control of a series of individual steps in grinding a workpiece (if applicable to other machine tools, G05B takes precedence) · CPC title