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Home › Projects › Automated Finishing of Castings: Parting Line Grinding

Automated Finishing of Castings: Parting Line Grinding

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This robotics project was selected from the ARM Institute’s 24-01 Technology Project Call, which centered on the following special topic areas: Multi-Modal Inputs for AI Robotics in Manufacturing, Rapid Re-Tasking and Robot Agility, Multi-Robot, Multi-Human Collaboration, and Virtual Commissioning of Advanced Robotic Systems.

Principal Investigator: 

CapSen Robotics

Project Team: 

The Ohio State University (OSU), Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and Yaskawa Robotics

Description:

Metal casting offers considerable flexibility in a component’s size, shape, and material and often operates in the low volume, high mix manufacturing regime. Castings often have highly variable features/defects that need to be removed or post-processed. Finishing processes today are typically completed manually due to variability. These manual processes can lead to errors, higher costs, and slower speeds. This project team will develop a robotic finishing cell that autonomously finishes castings. The system will image the cast component, reconstruct a 3D model of the part, identify parting line flash, create a tool path and motion plan for performing the grinding operation, and execute robotic grinding – all with limited human intervention and no explicit CNC programming.

Project Type

Technology

Artificial Intelligence

Inspection

Surface Finishing

Surface Treatment

Year Completed

2025

Project Team

The Ohio State University (OSU)

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

Yaskawa Robotics

Principle Investigator

CapSen Robotics

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