We’ve seen tremendous increases in automation in aerospace manufacturing as Aerospace 4.0 techniques integrate CAD designs with automated work cells have changed the nature of how components are built. The next step in that process is inspection and ensuring that everything meets specification. The future of inspection also appears to be trending toward automation, with robots being developed to utilize a variety of non-destructive testing capabilities to ensure that parts meet or exceed specifications.
FACC, a European aerospace supplier that produces aircraft components and systems, has been awarded a three-year research project to establish a software framework for the efficient use of inspection robots in aerospace manufacturing. The project, under the lead of Profactor GmbH, along with eight scientific and industrial partners from Austria, Germany, and Italy, will focus on the development of a new generation of inspection robots that can be used without extensive programming efforts.
Helmuth Hoeller, Director of the NDT division at FACC, stated that “the goal of the project, in line with our aim of advancing robotic solutions, is to replace the time-consuming and highly skilled task of robot programming with simply configuring the inspection task.” Today, the main challenge for inspection robots is planning the motion path of the robot to ensure that the entire surface of a part is inspected, which requires extensive programming today. The project aims to find a simple way to configure the task and communicate it to the robot, through the use of CAD models
, that enables inspection without detailed programming efforts. FACC will integrate the results of the project directly into the production workflow to test this process.
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