Design of the User Interface for a Robotic Spray Pyrolysis System to Deposit Thin Films

Abstract:

This paper presents the design of the user interface for a robotic spraypyrolysis system used in deposition on planar surfaces. The study takes into consideration theoptimization of the control characteristic parameters at the spraying process. CAD software environment is used to design thevirtual model at the robotic system, while RobotStudio is used to develop theuser interface. The design variables for optimization refer tothe spray pyrolysis deposition parameters (the number of passes, the pressureof the carrier gas, the orientation and the velocity of spray nozzle, thetemperature of the substrate). The main purpose of the paper is to obtain materials with controlled properties byspray pyrolysis, using a simple algorithm. The surfaces resulted by spraypyrolysis were analyzed using theAFM (Atomic Force Microscopy) technique.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 332)
• Pages: 194-199
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.332.194
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Monica Enescu, Cătălin Alexandru
• Keywords: Robotic System, Spray Pyrolysis, User Interface

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