US 12,347,340 B2
Systems and methods to simulate robotic joining operations
Pedro Gerardo Marquinez Torrecilla, Annapolis, MD (US); and Francisco Jose Diaz Cano, Huelva (ES)
Assigned to SEABERY NORTH AMERICA, INC., Annapolis, MD (US)
Appl. No. 16/978,128
Filed by SEABERY NORTH AMERICA, INC., Annapolis, MD (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 7, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/000265
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 3, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/171178, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 12, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18382147 (EP), filed on Mar. 7, 2018; and application No. 18382152 (EP), filed on Mar. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0012678 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. G09B 9/00 (2006.01); G09B 19/24 (2006.01); G09B 25/02 (2006.01)
CPC G09B 9/00 (2013.01) [G09B 19/24 (2013.01); G09B 25/02 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system to output a simulated welding result from a robotic welding operation, the system comprising:
a robot;
a physical welding implement connected to the robot;
a physical workpiece; and
a simulator configured to calculate a simulated welding result on the physical workpiece based on a communications output by the robot during a performance of the robotic welding operation with the physical welding implement, the simulated welding result comprising a simulated weld bead or a simulated weld joint;
wherein the simulator is configured to evaluate the performance of the robotic welding operation, based on the simulated welding result, during the performance of the robotic welding operation; and
wherein the robot and the simulator are configured to exchange command data in a bidirectional communication during the performance of the robotic welding operation, based on the evaluation of the simulator, wherein said command data is at least one instruction selected from a group of instructions comprising: starting or stopping welding with the physical welding implement, and starting or stopping a simulated flow of welding power, gas or electrode.