TY - JOUR
T1 - An accurate approach to roller path generation for robotic fibre placement of free-form surface composites
AU - Yan, Long
AU - Chen, Zezhong Chevy
AU - Shi, Yaoyao
AU - Mo, Rong
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Due to their high stiffness and strength, composites are widely used in the aerospace industry. To manufacture composites, especially composites of free-form surface structure, process of robotic fibre placement (RFP) is widely used in industry. However, due to the complex geometry of the free-form surface, it is quite challenging to generate accurate roller paths for placing fibre on the surface for high composites quality. To address this problem, this work proposes an accurate roller path planning method using the differential geometry. The roller paths can ensure the specified small gaps and overlaps between two tows for high composite quality. This approach is applied to several examples, and their results verify the validity of this approach. It has great potential to be adopted in industry.
AB - Due to their high stiffness and strength, composites are widely used in the aerospace industry. To manufacture composites, especially composites of free-form surface structure, process of robotic fibre placement (RFP) is widely used in industry. However, due to the complex geometry of the free-form surface, it is quite challenging to generate accurate roller paths for placing fibre on the surface for high composites quality. To address this problem, this work proposes an accurate roller path planning method using the differential geometry. The roller paths can ensure the specified small gaps and overlaps between two tows for high composite quality. This approach is applied to several examples, and their results verify the validity of this approach. It has great potential to be adopted in industry.
KW - Composite manufacturing
KW - Free-form surface composite
KW - Robotic fibre placement
KW - Roller path generation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84888339601&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.rcim.2013.10.007
DO - 10.1016/j.rcim.2013.10.007
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:84888339601
SN - 0736-5845
VL - 30
SP - 277
EP - 286
JO - Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
JF - Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
IS - 3
ER -