TY  - JOUR
AB  - Automated chopper gun trajectory planning (CGTP) for spray forming is highly desirable for today's automotive manufacturing. Generating chopper gun trajectories for free‐form surfaces to satisfy material distribution requirements is still highly challenging due to the complexity of the problems. In this paper, a user‐friendly software for automated CGTP has been developed. The CGTP software can take different formats of the CAD models of parts. A chopper gun trajectory is generated based on the CAD model of a part, chopper gun model, and constraints. A part is partitioned into patches to satisfy the given constraints. A trajectory integration algorithm is developed to integrate the trajectories of the patches to form a trajectory for the part. The CGTP software has been tested by Ford Motor Company and achieved satisfactory results.
VL  - 31
IS  - 3
SN  - 0143-991X
DO  - 10.1108/01439910410532378
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/01439910410532378
AU  - Chen Heping
AU  - Xi Ning
AU  - Kamran Masood Syed
AU  - Chen Yifan
AU  - Dahl Jeffrey
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - Development of automated chopper gun trajectory planning for spray forming
T2  - Industrial Robot: An International Journal
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 297
EP  - 307
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -