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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2019
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
James Alan Aske, Charleston, SC (US);
Tyler Emerson Berkey, Charleston, SC (US);
John Eric Miller, Wadmalaw Island, SC (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and computer program products for laser etching and robotic machining of large workpieces are disclosed. An example system includes a first ring of lasers configured to etch longitudinal gridlines on a workpiece, a second ring of lasers configured to etch circumferential gridlines on the workpiece, where the longitudinal gridlines and the circumferential gridlines define a working grid on the workpiece, and a machine vision system to scan the working grid and compare the working grid to a reference grid in a computer model of the workpiece and to determine offsets between the working grid and the reference grid for positioning a robotic machining tool.