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Intelligentized Methodology for Arc Welding Dynamical Processes

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In this chapter, an introduction is given on the development of welding handicraft, manufacturing technology and key technologies of welding automation and intelligentization. Recent twenty years have seen great development of welding robot in modern manufacturing industry, where arc welding is one of the mainstream technology. A large number of researches show that automatic control of the welding process requires not only good performance of the equipment, but also technologies, namely sensing, modeling and controlling of the welding process. None of the technologies is neglectable for welding process control, in which sensing is to monitor the process and extract characteristic information of the welding process; modeling is to identify the process based on acquired information; and controlling is to regulate the welding process based on the established models. The main part in controlling is to design controller for multi-variables coupled, nonlinear and time-varying situations.

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