Development of an industrial robot for welding in shipbuilding

: Warnecke, H.-J.; Utner, W.

Abstract
Industrial robots for arc welding are already in use successfully in many areas. In the german ship building industry there are no robot installation up to now beside a few testing installations, although in this area a lot of welding capacity occurs. During a national research project a prototype of a welding robot system for ship building was developed which conception and components are described in this article.