This paper has focused on evaluating the cutting forces in orbital drilling when compared to conventional drilling and how this affected the result when performing the same experiments with an industrial robot. The results show that cutting forces in orbital drilling ware as much as eight times lower when compared to conventional drilling. Cutting forces when drilling with standard industrial robots have always been considered a problem due to robot deflection. Therefore orbital drilling could be considered as an enabling technology for low-cost automation of robotic drilling. This paper focused primarily on orbital drilling with robots and a separate paper concentrating on the cutting forces in orbital drilling will be presented in the future. Another feature derived from the force measurements was that the variation in the forces when the orbital tool first exits the material could be used for detecting a new subsequent layer in a material stack.
Robotic orbital drilling of structures for aerospace applications
Robotergestütztes Umlaufbohren für Raumfahrtstrukturen
2002
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