The rising demand for civil aircraft leads to the development of flexible and adaptive production systems in aviation industry. Due to economic efficiency, operational accuracy and high performance these manufacturing and assembly systems must be technologically robust and standardized. The current aircraft assembly and its jigs are characterized by a high complexity with poor changeability and low adaptability. In this context, the use of industrial robots and standardized jigs promise highly flexible and accurate complex assembly operations. This paper deals with the flexible and adaptable aircraft assembly based on industrial robots with special end-effectors for shaping operations. By the development and use of lightweight gripper system made of carbon fiber reinforced plastics the required scaling, robustness and stiffness of the whole assembly system can be realized. This work shows the potentials and challenges for using modular, standardized and adaptable productions systems in aviation industry.


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    Title :

    Use of an Innovative Modular Gripper System for Flexible Aircraft Assembly Operations


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE 2016 Aerospace Manufacturing and Automated Fastening Conference & Exhibition ; 2016



    Publication date :

    2016-09-27




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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