New automated fiber placement systems at the NASA Langley Research Center and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center provide state-of-art composites capabilities to these organizations. These systems support basic and applied research at Langley, complementing large-scale manufacturing and technology development at Marshall. These systems each consist of a multi-degree of freedom mobility platform including a commercial robot, a commercial tool changer mechanism, a bespoke automated fiber placement end effector, a linear track, and a rotational tool support structure. In addition, new end effectors with advanced capabilities may be either bought or developed with partners in industry and academia to extend the functionality of these systems. These systems will be used to build large and small composite parts in support of the ongoing NASA Composites for Exploration Upper Stage Project later this year.


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    Title :

    NASA Automated Fiber Placement Capabilities: Similar Systems, Complementary Purposes


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    Conference:

    Composites Materials and Manufacturing Technologies for Space Applications Technical Interchange Meeting ; 2015 ; New Orleans, LA, United States


    Publication date :

    2015-05-06


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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