Current practice for assembly of wing skins to wing stringers utilizes temporary aluminum lock bolts prior to squeeze riveting. Removing and replacing these fasteners is time consuming and hazardous. We have automated the wing riveters to perform this replacement process. This paper discusses the four areas of development that were carried out to accomplish this: tack fastener installation, machine vision system development, drill development and new tooling. Testing results and new findings will be discussed.


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    Title :

    Automated Removal of Temporary Fasteners on Wing Panels


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Automated Fastening Conference & Exposition ; 2000



    Publication date :

    2000-09-19




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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