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US 12,277,369 · App. 17/968,150 · Granted Apr 15, 2025

Generating simulated weld paths for a welding robot

Inventors: Alexander James Lonsberry (Gahanna, OH); Andrew Gordon Lonsberry (Columbus, OH); Matthew Klein (Columbus, OH); Surag Balajepalli (Columbus, OH); Chaojie Feng (Dublin, OH); Rachit Aggarwal (Columbus, OH); Raghav Sood (Columbus, OH)
Assignee: Path Robotics, Inc.
G06F30/20G06F2111/04G06F2119/02
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Patent No.
US 12,277,369
App. No.
17/968,150
Granted
Apr 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

In some examples, a method for determining weldable and unweldable portions of a seam comprises receiving a representation of a part including the seam. The method also includes discretizing a representation of the seam into a plurality of waypoints. The method also includes evaluating each waypoint from the plurality of waypoints for feasibility of welding. The method further includes generating a weld path through at least a subset of the plurality of waypoints in accordance with the feasibility of welding.

Claims (40)

1. A computer implemented robotic welding method, comprising:

providing a welding robot comprising a welding arm and a motorized positioner coupled to a weld head, wherein the welding arm is configured to provide the weld head with one or more first degrees of freedom, wherein the motorized positioner is configured to provide the weld head with one or more second degrees of freedom;

receiving, in a non-transitory memory communicatively coupled to a processor and to the welding robot, a digital representation of a plurality of parts including a digital seam representation of a seam to be welded between the plurality of parts, wherein the digital representation of the plurality of parts comprises a computer aided design (CAD) representation of the plurality of parts;

discretizing, by the processor, the digital seam representation into a plurality of sequentially-ordered waypoints in which each separate waypoint of the plurality of waypoints is spaced along the digital seam representation and constrains an orientation of the weld head in three or more degrees of freedom, and dividing each said waypoint of the plurality of waypoints into a plurality of nodes of the waypoint, wherein each node of the plurality of nodes is associated with a corresponding position and a corresponding orientation of the weld head;

evaluating, by the processor, a welding feasibility of each said node of the plurality of nodes associated with each said waypoint of the plurality of waypoints based on determining, from at least the digital representation, whether the weld head, when constrained at a given waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, would encounter a collision and/or at least one infeasible weld parameter at a first waypoint;

modifying, by the processor, at least one constraint on at least the first waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, based on at least one of the one or more first degrees of freedom or the one or more second degrees of freedom, in response to determining that the weld head would encounter a collision and/or at least one infeasible weld parameter at the first waypoint;

generating, by the processor, a weld path through at least a subset of the plurality of waypoints wherein the subset includes the first waypoint after modifying the at least one constraint, wherein the welding feasibility of at least one node associated with each said waypoint of the subset of the plurality of waypoints is greater than a threshold feasibility value, and wherein the welding feasibility of each said node of the plurality of nodes associated with a waypoint after a last waypoint of the subset of the plurality of waypoints is less than the threshold feasibility value;

providing, by the processor, the weld path to the welding robot;

welding the part along the weld path with the weld head; and

sending a signal indicating that a portion of the seam after the last waypoint of the subset of the plurality of waypoints is unweldable.

2. The computer implemented robotic welding method of claim 1 , wherein evaluating each said node of the plurality of nodes for the welding feasibility includes assigning a likelihood of the welding feasibility at each said node.

3. The computer implemented robotic welding method of claim 1 , wherein:

a work angle, travel angle, and each said waypoint from the plurality of waypoints constrains the orientation of the weld head in five degrees of freedom; and

the plurality of nodes for each said waypoint of the plurality of waypoints represent an unconstrained sixth degree of freedom of the weld head at that waypoint.

4. The computer implemented robotic welding method of claim 3 , wherein evaluating, for each said waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, each said node of the plurality of nodes associated with that waypoint for the welding feasibility includes:

simulating a movement of the welding robot, including the weld head, to that waypoint and that node from an immediately prior waypoint; and

determining whether at least one of the weld head or the welding robot is predicted to collide with at least one of the welding robot, the part, or a fixture based on movement of the weld head to that waypoint and that node from the immediately prior waypoint.

5. The computer implemented robotic welding method of claim 3 , wherein evaluating, for each said waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, each said node of the plurality of nodes associated with that waypoint for the welding feasibility includes:

simulating a movement of the welding robot, including the weld head, to that waypoint and that node from an immediately prior waypoint-node pair; and

determining whether at least one of the weld head or the welding robot is predicted to collide with at least one of the welding robot, the part, or a fixture based on movement of the weld head to that waypoint and that node from the immediately prior waypoint-node pair,

the method further comprising:

determining, for at least one waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, a cost associated with movement of the weld head to that waypoint from the immediately prior waypoint-node pair in response to determining that at least one of the weld head or the welding robot is not predicted to collide with at least one of the welding robot, the part, or the fixture when moving to that waypoint and that node from the immediately prior waypoint-node pair.

6. The computer implemented robotic welding method of claim 5 , further comprising:

minimizing a cost function for the weld path by searching a parameter space that includes:

the plurality of waypoints,

the plurality of nodes associated with each said waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, and

for each said node of the first waypoint, a node cost associated with movement of the weld head to each said node from another node of a different waypoint of the plurality of waypoints that is immediately prior to the first waypoint.

7. The computer implemented robotic welding method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one infeasible weld parameter includes at least one of a weld angle or a work angle.

8. The computer implemented robotic welding method of claim 1 , wherein modifying the constraint comprises permitting a weld angle of the weld head to vary in one or more rotational dimensions.

9. A robotic welding system, comprising:

a welding robot comprising a welding arm and a motorized positioner coupled to a weld head, wherein the welding arm is configured to provide the weld head with one or more first degrees of freedom, wherein the motorized positioner is configured to provide the weld head with one or more second degrees of freedom; and

a controller comprising a non-transitory memory communicatively coupled to a processor and to the welding robot, the non-transitory memory comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause operations comprising:

receiving, by the processor, a digital representation of a plurality of parts including a digital seam representation of a seam to be welded between the plurality of parts, wherein the digital representation of the plurality of parts comprises a computer aided design (CAD) representation of the plurality of parts;

discretizing, by the processor, the digital seam representation into a plurality of sequentially-ordered waypoints in which each separate waypoint of the plurality of waypoints is spaced along the digital seam representation and constrains an orientation of the weld head in three or more degrees of freedom, and dividing each said waypoint of the plurality of waypoints into a plurality of nodes of the waypoint, wherein each node of the plurality of nodes is associated with a corresponding position and a corresponding orientation of the weld head;

evaluating, by the processor, a welding feasibility of each said node of the plurality of nodes associated with each said waypoint of the plurality of waypoints based on determining, from at least the digital representation, whether the weld head, when constrained at a given waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, would encounter a collision and/or at least one infeasible weld parameter at a first waypoint;

modifying, by the processor, at least one constraint on at least the first waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, based on at least one of the one or more first degrees of freedom or the one or more second degrees of freedom, in response to determining that the weld head would encounter a collision and/or at least one infeasible weld parameter at the first waypoint;

generating, by the processor, a weld path through at least a subset of the plurality of waypoints wherein the subset includes the first waypoint after modifying the at least one constraint, wherein the welding feasibility of at least one node associated with each said waypoint of the subset of the plurality of waypoints is greater than a threshold feasibility value, and wherein the welding feasibility of each said node of the plurality of nodes associated with a waypoint after a last waypoint of the subset of the plurality of waypoints is less than the threshold feasibility value;

providing, by the processor, the weld path to the welding robot for welding the part along the weld path with the weld head;

sending, by the processor, a signal indicating that a portion of the seam after the last waypoint of the subset of the plurality of waypoints is unweldable; and

welding the part along the weld path with the weld head.

Assignments (5)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 19, 2026
From: TRIPLEPOINT PRIVATE VENTURE CREDIT INC.
To: PATH ROBOTICS, INC.
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To: TRINITY CAPITAL INC.
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SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 10, 2025
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 23, 2023
From: LONSBERRY, ALEXANDER JAMES; LONSBERRY, ANDREW GORDON; KLEIN, MATTHEW; FENG, CHAOJIE; SOOD, RAGHAV; AGGARWAL, RACHIT; BALAJEPALLI, SURAG
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63256992 · Oct 18, 2021
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