Method and an apparatus for performing a program controlled...

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2006-01-26

2010-10-12

Patel, Ramesh B (Department: 2121)

Data processing: generic control systems or specific application

Specific application, apparatus or process

Product assembly or manufacturing

C700S176000, C700S182000, C700S186000, C700S192000, C700S248000, C234S013000, C234S094000

Reexamination Certificate

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07813830

ABSTRACT:
A drilling machine drills at a multiplicity of target locations on a component. Two robots, calibrated with calibration data, move the component in a 6-D coordinate system. A metrology system ascertains the position of the component relative to the drilling machine. The movement of the robots is effected by commands generated by off-line programming. The component is moved relative to the drilling machine to a target position, ready for drilling, by a closed-loop process in which the differences in position between the expected position (the target position) and the actual position (as viewed by the metrology system) are corrected.

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ISR for PCT/GB2006/000266 mailed Oct. 16, 2006.

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