Laser cutting robot is an industrial cutting robot that uses a focusing mirror to focus a CO2 laser beam on the material surface to melt the material, while blowing away the melted material with a compressed gas coaxial to the laser beam, and making the laser beam and the material move relative to each other along a certain trajectory, thus forming a certain shape of the cut. Laser cutting technology is widely used in the processing of metal and non-metal materials, which can greatly reduce processing time, reduce processing costs and improve the quality of the workpiece.
Traditional cutting technology is complicated, not only need to draw, measure and prepare, but also need to polish the edge after cutting, while laser cutting robot cutting workpiece is fast, neat edge, eliminating many tedious processes, and is highly sought after by the manufacturing industry.
Working principle of laser cutting robot
A laser cutting robot is a laser beam that is focused into a high power density laser beam by an optical path system. The laser beam hits the surface of the workpiece, causing it to reach its melting or boiling point, while a high-pressure gas coaxial to the beam blows away the molten or vaporized metal.
Cutting robot processing is the use of invisible light beam instead of the traditional mechanical knife, with high precision, fast cutting, not limited to cutting pattern restrictions, automatic layout to save material, smooth kerf, low processing costs, etc., will gradually improve or replace the traditional metal cutting process equipment.
The mechanical part of the laser cutter head and the workpiece without contact, in the work will not cause scratches on the surface of the workpiece; cutting robot speed, smooth and flat kerf, generally without subsequent processing; cutting heat-affected zone is small, the plate deformation is small, narrow cutting slit (0.1mm ~ 0.3mm); no mechanical stress in the kerf, no shear burr; high processing accuracy, good repeatability, no damage to the surface of the material; CNC programming, can be processed Arbitrary plane figure, can cut the whole board with a large width, no need to open the mold, economic and time-saving.
Since the 1970s with the continuous improvement and development of CO2 laser and CNC technology, it has now become an advanced processing method for industrial plate cutting. Cutting robots are often used in industrial production. According to the different functions and working principles of robots, cutting robots are divided into flame cutting robots, plasma cutting robots, laser cutting robots, water cutting robots, etc. Among the many cutting robots, laser cutting robots have the highest efficiency and cutting accuracy that is unmatched by other cutting robots.
