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Abstract

At present, the elimination of burrs has the disadvantage of being carried out manually or in a semiautomatic way which causes the system to be less efficient. Also, the anode surface inspection as it is carried out today has the disadvantage of being visual (by the personnel) in many cases and with low levels of application of advanced vision technologies. Due to the above, a robot system and method have been developed to carry out the elimination process of burrs and the inspection of anode surfaces in an automatic way. The robotic system is composed mainly of a robotic manipulator (1) of at least 4 degrees of freedom, and a gripping mechanism (2) which allows to take the burr (3) elimination device from a tool holder located at one of its sides, and move it through a defined path to the anode (4), in which a burr elimination process will take place, in a sequential and programmed way, to a certain number of edges and/or faces of the anodes (4) to be defined. Additionally, the configuration of this system allows to carry out an inspection process of the surfaces in a sequential and programmed way through a second robotic manipulator of at least 4 degrees of freedom and a gripping mechanism which allows to take an advanced vision system for the inspection of surfaces from a tool holder

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