Development of Complex Surfaces Adaptive Polishing Method for Robotic Cell

This paper presents the solutions adopted for an automated robotic polishing cell for processing complex surfaces of parts, such as turbine blades. Turbine blade is frequently carried out manually, and these operations are iterative, time consuming and require experience. Automation can provide cost reduction minimizing production times on such manual finishing operations. The authors presented a step-by-step plan for the implementation of a robotized installation for adaptive polishing of complex surface profiles and a method for control the geometry of the complex surfaces. The research shown in this paper provides an overall solution without discarding aspects that could be relevant to the task considered in the turbine blade making environment. The application of this solution will allow increasing labor productivity, repeatability of the result and significantly reduce the cost of the finished product.