The Anthropomorphic Six Axis Robot as an Appropriate Tool for Automatic Gas Pipe Welding Process

摘要

This paper presents current technologies used for pipe welding. Welding processes such as Tandem and Hybrid (Laser-GMAW) welding are compared to regular 1-wire GMAW. The device used for positioning the welding head is an anthropomorphic robot, as this type of robot provides everything needed for the application: low cost, flexibility, sufficient payload and precision. The current state of pipeline welding is presented, along with improvement possibilities for the future.