Software Toolchain for Offline-Programming a Jig-Less Fiber Placement Process Using Cooperating Robots

Michael Vistein, Lars Brandt, Gabriel Côté, Julien-Mathieu Audet, Bruno Monsarrat

2024

Abstract

Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) is one technology that can be used to produce lightweight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) aircraft parts which can help in the decarbonization of the aviation industry. Usually this process requires an expensive, rigid mold into which the material is laid using a tape laying head. By using a second industrial robot with a specialized counter-endeffector, the need for a mold can be avoided. However, in order to be able to efficiently program two industrial robot simultaneously, an end-to-end offline-programming (OLP) approach is needed. This paper demonstrates a software toolchain covering the whole process from initial computer aided design (CAD) to the final robot controller programs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Vistein M., Brandt L., Côté G., Audet J. and Monsarrat B. (2024). Software Toolchain for Offline-Programming a Jig-Less Fiber Placement Process Using Cooperating Robots. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO; ISBN 978-989-758-717-7, SciTePress, pages 379-386. DOI: 10.5220/0012889700003822

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco24,
author={Michael Vistein and Lars Brandt and Gabriel Côté and Julien-Mathieu Audet and Bruno Monsarrat},
title={Software Toolchain for Offline-Programming a Jig-Less Fiber Placement Process Using Cooperating Robots},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO},
year={2024},
pages={379-386},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012889700003822},
isbn={978-989-758-717-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO
TI - Software Toolchain for Offline-Programming a Jig-Less Fiber Placement Process Using Cooperating Robots
SN - 978-989-758-717-7
AU - Vistein M.
AU - Brandt L.
AU - Côté G.
AU - Audet J.
AU - Monsarrat B.
PY - 2024
SP - 379
EP - 386
DO - 10.5220/0012889700003822
PB - SciTePress