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Uniform Coverage of Automotive Surface Patches (2005)
| Venue: | THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH 2005; 24; 883 |
| Citations: | 11 - 0 self |
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@MISC{Atkar05uniformcoverage,
author = {Prasad N. Atkar and Aaron Greenfield and David C. Conner and Howie Choset and Alfred A. Rizzi},
title = { Uniform Coverage of Automotive Surface Patches },
year = {2005}
}
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Abstract
In spray painting applications, it is essential to generate a spray gun trajectory such that the entire surface is completely covered and receives an acceptably uniform layer of paint deposition; we call this the “uniform coverage” problem. The uniform coverage problem is challenging because the atomizer emits a non-trivial paint distribution, thus making the relationships between the spray gun trajectory and the deposition uniformity complex. To understand the key issues involved in uniform coverage, we consider surface patches that are geodesically convex and topologically simple as representative of subsets of realistic automotive surfaces. In addition to ensuring uniform paint deposition on the surface, our goal is to also minimize the associated process cycle time and paint waste. Based on the relationships between the spray gun trajectory and the output characteristics (i.e., uniformity, cycle time and paint waste), our
Keyphrases
spray gun trajectory uniform coverage problem spray painting application uniform layer deposition uniformity complex realistic automotive surface key issue associated process cycle time entire surface paint waste cycle time uniform paint deposition uniform coverage output characteristic paint deposition surface patch non-trivial paint distribution
