The application of Remote Laser Welding (RLW) has become an attractive assembly technology in various branches of industry, as it offers higher efficiency at lower costs compared to traditional Resistance Spot Welding (RSW) when high volumes of sheet metal assemblies are to be produced. However, the introduction of RLW technology raises multiple new issues in designing the configuration, the la...

A current trend in the automotive industry is the application of joining techniques that contribute to lighter car bodies with higher stiffness, increasing at the same time the efficiency of the manufacturing process. An emerging technology is remote laser welding (RLW). It joins metal sheets by a laser beam, projected from a scanner mounted on an industrial robot. This enables contactless weld...

where  and  are positive constants, was first proposed by Peregrine [74] for modeling the propagation of unidirectional weakly nonlinear and weakly dispersive water waves. Later on Benjamine et al. [9] proposed the use of the RLW equation as a preferred alternative to the more classical Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation to model a large class of physical phenomena. These authors showed that RL...

The regularized long wave equation (RLW) is solved numerically by using the quintic B-spline Galerkin finite element method. The same method is applied to the time-split RLW equation. Comparison is made with both analytical solutions and some previous results. Propagation of solitary waves, interaction of two solitons are studied. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC: 65N30; 65D07; 76B25

The paper introduces a complete offline programming toolbox for remote laser welding (RLW) which provides a semi-automated method for computing close-to-optimal robot programs. A workflow is proposed for the complete planning process, and new models and algorithms are presented for solving the optimization problems related to each step of the workflow: the sequencing of the welding tasks, path ...