A design and development of an XY table for a laser spot welding

Abstract

An XY table is an equipment which is widely used in industry for automation application. Examples of its application include CNC machining, laser welding, milling and etc. An XY table is controlled by a motion control system consists of the control of software and hardware such as a PLC. In this study an XV table is used to position the focus head to automate the welding process for laser spot welding. A program has been developed to control the XV table. The performance of the XV table for linear and circular interpolation was analyzed. A user interface was also developed to read CAD data file and transform it into XY movement. The user interface is developed using Visual Basic for manual and automatic positioning.