SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOOL TESTING AND ALIGNMENT

Patent №

US 8,401,692

Granted

2013-03-19

Filed 2010

Owner

FLOW INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12878885

A system and method for improving a tool tip path of a machine, such as a waterjet cutting machine, by testing and compensating for tool misalignment. The system and method using a sensor positioned to sense a portion of the machine, such as a cutting head assembly, during a sequence of movements thereof and configured to output information indicative of various positions and orientations of a tool of the machine so as to generate an improved tool tip path based on transformation parameters derived from such information.

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AI classification

Planning0.73
Vision0.00
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

FLOW INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

assignment · 254020672

Assignors

KNAUPP, MICHAEL, MEYER, ANDREAS

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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