Fast and Simple Model - For Free Hanging, Pre-impregnated Carbon Fibre Material

Christian Schlette, Ole W. Nielsen, Henrik G. Petersen

Abstract

Automated one-of-a-kind grasping and draping of pre-impregnated (prepreg) fiber plies onto complex molds is a hitherto unsolved problem. In the project FlexDraper, we have gathered an international consortium with industrial keyplayers for addressing this gap. Our approach is based on model- and simulation-based control of the shaping of the plies during the draping procedure, which requires fast computable models in the draping control loop. In this paper, we present such a fast computable mathematical model for the shape of free hanging prepreg fiber plies with perpendicular fiber directions, where the ply is held (clamped) at a set of locations that are not too far apart. Rather than using expensive physically based models, e.g. FEM simulations, our model is only based on interpolations between the held locations satisfying curve length constraints in fiber directions. The paper also contains experimental tests for the accuracy of the model.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Schlette C., Nielsen O. and Petersen H. (2018). Fast and Simple Model - For Free Hanging, Pre-impregnated Carbon Fibre Material.In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-321-6, pages 7-14. DOI: 10.5220/0007239700000000

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco18,
author={Christian Schlette and Ole W. Nielsen and Henrik G. Petersen},
title={Fast and Simple Model - For Free Hanging, Pre-impregnated Carbon Fibre Material},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2018},
pages={7-14},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007239700000000},
isbn={978-989-758-321-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Fast and Simple Model - For Free Hanging, Pre-impregnated Carbon Fibre Material
SN - 978-989-758-321-6
AU - Schlette C.
AU - Nielsen O.
AU - Petersen H.
PY - 2018
SP - 7
EP - 14
DO - 10.5220/0007239700000000