In this paper solution for low-cost automation of aircraft assembly is presented. The concept of this development is closely related to “Lean Automation”, which in this case concerns the use of modern standard equipment such as standard robots, PC-computers and a newly developed spatial sensor system for precision measurements of positions. The robot is used to perform reconfiguration of tooling modules that are possible to be configured/reconfigured in six degrees of freedom. A prototype developed as the result of an EU-project called ADFAST* has been evaluated at Linköping University in Sweden. Technical functionality is reported where the robot manages to configure the flexible tooling modules to a total error bellow 50 μm. This paper presents the results on the portion of the project addressing robot, metrology system and tooling.


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    Title :

    Low-Cost Automation for Aircraft Assembly


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE 2004 Aerospace Manufacturing & Automated Fastening Conference & Exhibition ; 2004



    Publication date :

    2004-09-21




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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