At DLR's Center for Lightweight Production Technologies in Augsburg the combination of an industrial robot, a specialized gripper combined with an ultrasonic welder and a computer vision system was investigated on the basis of a demonstrator's fuselage segment. This article describes the keystones of a complete digital process chain from part design, automated cutpiece fabrication on a cutter, generation of system related meta-information as digital planning of gripping, placing and welding, up to the final layup [1], [2].
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