Spiral steel pipe end weld grinding and polishing robot

Abstract

A spiral steel pipe end weld grinding and polishing robot is provided. A two-degree-of-freedom fine-grinding actuator equipped with a laser profiler is installed on the execution end of a multi-degree-of-freedom manipulator, and the grinding accuracy and polishing of the manipulator are improved while simplifying motion control. Accuracy, to overcome the technical problem that the quality of the weld bead at the end of the spiral steel pipe after grinding by the multi-degree-of-freedom grinding manipulator cannot meet the process index requirements stipulated in the API Spec5L standard and the GBT97111-1997 standard; manual secondary grinding is still required. The invention not only can be used for grinding the outer weld seam of the spiral steel pipe, but also is suitable for grinding the inner weld seam of the spiral steel pipe, and the grinding will not damage the base material; the minimum residual height after grinding can be less than or equal to 0.1mm, which is much higher than the API Spec5L standard And GBT97111-1997 standard requirements; laser profiler cooperates with special detection algorithm, can realize high-precision scanning detection with accuracy less than 0.05mm; provide strong technical support for high-precision weld grinding.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of operation transportation grinding and polishing, and in particular relates to a welding seam repairing and polishing robot at the end of a spiral steel pipe. Background technique [0002] Spiral steel pipe is a pipe made of strip steel coil as raw material and rolled by spiral welding process. For the spiral steel pipe, in order to meet the welding quality of the next step of the steel pipe butt girth welding of the spiral steel pipe end, the API Spec5L standard and the GBT97111-1997 standard both clearly stipulate: Take the weld seam of the spiral steel pipe end with a diameter of 508mm as an example: First, The weld reinforcement within the length range of at least 150mm from the pipe end of the spiral welded pipe should be removed, that is, the requirements for the axial grinding elongation of the pipe end of the spiral steel pipe should be removed; secondly, the weld bead after grinding should not be ...

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[0003] However, under the existing technology, the equipment on the market that directly carries the grinding head with the help of a manipulator to complete the automatic grinding generally has insufficient grinding accuracy, which leads to the need for manual secondary grinding or damage to the base metal of the welded pipe after grinding because the weld bead reinforcement is too high Leading to the scrapping of steel pipes, that is, it is impossible to achieve the fully automatic grinding accuracy and technical index requirements described above in line with the API Spec5L standard and the GBT97111-1997 standard.

[0004] Take a kind of robot polishing system with three-dimensional vision and its control method disclosed by the publication number CN109483369A, and a kind of robot polishing system and its control method with three-dimensional vision disclosed by the publication number CN109483369A as an example: the above two technical solutions are Pneumatic grinding technology is adopted; although it has certain advantages in flexible output; however, affected by the compressibility of gas, the gas in the pneumatic actuator is easily fluctuated by changes in the external environment temperature, resulting in poor stability of the natural frequency of the pneumatic system, resulting in the final Grinding linearity output is not ideal

Not only that, the performance of the system is not stable due to the serious creeping effect of the cylinder friction of the pneumatic actuator at low speed, so the reliability of high-precision grinding is restricted

Therefore, it is impossible to meet the high-precision and reliable automatic grinding requirements of the weld bead spiral steel pipe end weld within 0.5mm height after high-precision smooth grinding without damaging the base material.

[0005] In addition, the publication number CN109483369A discloses a robot grinding system with three-dimensional vision and its control method. Since the multi-degree-of-freedom manipulator is used to directly carry the grinding wheel for grinding, due to the limitation of the accuracy of the motion track planning of the manipulator and the elastic deformation of the track sensors of each joint. The joints generate additional rotation angle increments, and the displacement generated by the rotation angle increments will be amplified by the arm length of each execution unit of the multi-degree-of-freedom manipulator. Therefore, the grinding accuracy of the multi-degree-of-freedom manipulator directly carrying the grinding head is limited and cannot completely replace manual grinding. Achievable technical requirements

In addition, the grinding wheel is only used for grinding; the grinding wheel and the weld seam of the steel pipe are ground in point contact, the grinding efficiency is low, the replacement cost of the grinding wheel is high, and the power utilization rate of the machine tool is not ideal

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