Overview
The proposal approached innovative solutions for the design and manufacturing of the tooling needed for the assembly of two different kinds of configuration for the outer wings within a Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft. The PROUD proposal understood that the main requirement for this wing structural part is based on their high dimensional stability and tight geometrical tolerances to compliance with surface quality for a natural laminar flow condition, and therefore stability control and manufacturing precision over the integration tools to be designed and manufactured shall be strict. The proposal combined a skilled and qualified aeronautical tooling designers and manufacturers, within technology providers, for the specific solutions in manufacturing and metrology for stress or deformation measurements.
With the chance of high precision automatised positioning of parts for the inner structure to be able to introduce robot positioning in the aeronautic sector and reduce the human error added to positioning tolerances.
Funding
Results
Executive Summary:
The project approached innovative solutions for the design and manufacturing of the tooling needed for the assembly of two different kinds of configuration for the outer wings within a smart fixed wing aircraft.
PROUD understood that the main requirement for this wing structural part is based on their high dimensional stability and tight geometrical tolerances to compliance with surface quality for a natural laminar flow condition, and therefore stability control and manufacturing precision over the integration tools to be designed and manufactured shall be strict.
The project has combined skilled and qualified aeronautical process and tooling engineers to be able to achieve main goals of the project:
- Demonstrate technical viability of manufacturing high precision tooling that will impact directly at the aircraft assembly;
- Research on tooling manufacturing affordable limits to achieve the very high precision assembly;
- The study of the real specimen own deformation impact on the final assembly process;
- The study and demonstration of the robot positioning implementation technologies at high accuracy structure assemblies;
- The study and demonstration of alternatives imaging measuring ways to be correlated with the latest laser measuring technology;
- The new study of the complete assembly process to evaluate new technology insertion and its impact;
- Economic viability study of the implementation of new technologies based high precision assembly added with photogrammetric and automat zed portioning systems;
- As the end goal of the project, the demonstration of these different advances at the complete wing.