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Presented in this chapter is a robotic percussive riveting system for aircraft assembly automation. It is shown here that a successful robot application to the automation of a process requires in-depth research of the process and interaction with the robot. For this purpose, a process planning-driven approach is proposed to guide this development. A typical process planning will involve a list of key considerations including process sequence, process parameters, process tooling, and process control. Through this list, a number of key issues are identified for the robotic percussive riveting process, such as rivet pattern planning, rivet time determination, rivet tooling design, and rivet insertion control. Furthermore, an important issue pertinent to robot interaction is identified, i.e., robot fatigue life under repetitive percussion during riveting. It is demonstrated here that the thorough research on these issues has effectively created know-how for the successful development of our robotic percussive riveting system.
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This work is supported partially by NSERC I2I program in Canada for the first author and partially by the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai University for the third author.
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Xi, F.(., Lin, Y., Li, Y. (2017). A Robotic Percussive Riveting System for Aircraft Assembly Automation. In: Zhang, D., Wei, B. (eds) Advanced Mechatronics and MEMS Devices II. Microsystems and Nanosystems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32180-6_20
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