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Paint quality assessment is a necessary step in many industries, especially in automotive. Checking parameters such as thickness, gloss, levelling and colour, for instance, is a mandatory task in order to guarantee aspect quality for the customer and that only the necessary material is being used during manufacturing. This paint quality assessment is usually been done manually, using contact hand devices. However, controlling a complete car in movement means dozens of measurement points to perform in a very narrow cycle time. Under these conditions, repeatability, speed and data transference are challenging. In this paper, we present the eQUALS system, an automated solution for quality assessment for the Paint Shop. It is composed by a robot able to mount low-cost measurement contact devices that can perform an automatic inspection of paint quality magnitudes in a series of points on a car in movement, guaranteeing that both, the device and especially the car, are not damaged during the process. It is a modular solution which can adapt different needs, line speeds, devices and architectures. eQUALS answers one of the challenges of the ESMERA project, a H2020 consortium devoted to robotics applications for SMEs.
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The authors want to thank the ESMERA project (European SMEs Robotic Applications), which has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program, under grant agreement No. 780265 and supports the work of this project.
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Dacal-Nieto, A., Fernandez-Gonzalez, C., Alonso-Ramos, V., Antequera-Garcia, G., Ríos, C. (2020). eQUALS: Automated Quality Check System for Paint Shop. In: Wang, Y., Martinsen, K., Yu, T., Wang, K. (eds) Advanced Manufacturing and Automation IX. IWAMA 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 634. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2341-0_50
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