Vision-Guided Robotic Welding & BIW Cell Integration: Calibration, Multi-Robot Cell Design, and Commissioning for ABB, FANUC, and KUKA Automotive Automation (Complete Robotics Guides)

Every Body-in-White welding line runs on an assumption that quietly costs manufacturers millions: that every part arrives exactly where the CAD model says it should be. Vision-guided robotics exists to break that assumption — and almost nothing documents how to actually build it.

Vendor manuals from Cognex, Keyence, ABB, FANUC, and KUKA each document their own half of a vision-guided system in isolation. This book closes the gap between them: the real commissioning knowledge that only shows up once a system is running in production, not on a demonstration bench.

Inside, you'll learn:

• Camera selection, hand-eye calibration, and correction limit design
• Seam tracking, part misalignment correction, and weld quality verification
• ABB Integrated Vision, FANUC iRVision, and KUKA.VisionTech — covered brand by brand with real code patterns
• Cross-brand PLC signal handshaking that actually survives a multi-vendor production floor
• Complete BIW cell case studies with realistic commissioning debugging narratives
• A full commissioning checklist and two capstone projects to consolidate everything

Written for working robotics and automation engineers who already know how to program a robot and now need to add machine vision to that skill set — not a beginner's introduction, but a practical field guide for the commissioning floor.