Deburring remanufacturing approaches

A novel concept of intelligent robotic deburring cells, implementing ZF’s ZD strategies will be developed. Metrological on-line inspection tools will evaluate product quality at each deburring stage identifying defects; a parametrized model based control will interpret the sensory input and, thanks to a model based control embedding the knowledge of the deburring process, will automatically generate an optimized deburring cycle, choosing the best tools and setting the ideal working parameters. The Robot cell supervisory control will be then able to automatically generate the multi-stage deburring cycle once sensed the quality achieved. After each deburring stage, the quality achieved will be checked in order to better tune the next operation or, in the worst case, define a proper repairing action. Proper compliant tools and ZD deburring strategies will also be defined. One of the major challenges will deal with the development of the inference engine, and its encoding into the robotic cell supervisory control, in order to add the robotic cell the “intelligence” to autonomously generate ZD strategy in real-time. Integration and validation will be carried out experimentally on a prototype at TRL 5-6.