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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2019
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Nicholas D. Richardson, Mahtomedi, MN (US);
Brett R. Hemes, Woodbury, MN (US);
Mark W. Orlando, Chesterfield Township, MI (US);
Juan A. Munoz, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Sarah M. Mullins, St. Paul, MN (US);
Matthew H. Purdin, Minneapolis, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A method and associated system provides automated abrasive paint repair using automated abrasive paint repair devices that selectively sand, buff, and polish a substrate in response to received instructions generated by a controller. The controller receives coordinates of each identified defect in the substrate along with parameters describing characteristics of each defect, selects a sanding process, a buffing process, and/or a polishing process based on empirically derived rules established by skilled/expert human operators and the received parameters. The controller outputs instructions to cause the automated abrasive paint repair devices to execute the selected sanding process, buffing process, and/or polishing process using the received parameters. The empirically derived rules and parameters may be stored in a lookup table and/or updated by a machine learning module.