Development of a supervisory system for the aircraft structural assembly automation

• Grant number: 11/03677-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Aerospace Engineering - Materials and Processes for Aeronautical, Aerospace Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Luís Gonzaga Trabasso
• Grantee: Glauber Lopes Mosqueira
• Host Institution: Divisão de Engenharia Mecânica (IEM). Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA). Ministério da Defesa (Brasil). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project proposes the creation of a system to overlook the activities of a manufacture robotic cell. The development of such a cell, on course at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica with the support of Embraer, intends to automate the assembly of aeronautical structures such as fuselages. This management system will integrate the many modules that compose the cell - manipulators, metrologic equipment, end-effectors - through a communications network. Furthermore, it will feature a unified computational interface which concentrates the main control and configuration functions of the cell, to simplify and ease the implementation and future operation of the project in industry. (AU)