Patent ID: 9700953
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B23K,B25J,G05B,Y10S

Claim:
1. An adaptive welding apparatus, comprising: an arc welding robot including a repositionable arc welding gun, the arc welding robot configured to position the arc welding gun at a location of a joint formed at an interface of a first workpiece and a second workpiece; a thermographic imager configured to measure a temperature of at least one of the first workpiece and the second workpiece at the location; and a controller in signal communication with the arc welding robot and the thermographic imager, the controller configured to select a weld schedule for forming a weld at the location based on the temperature measured with the thermographic imager and a joint profile of the location before the weld is formed, wherein the joint profile is determined based on material properties of the first workpiece and the second workpiece.