Engineers Design Robot for Aerospace Manufacturing
DAYTON, OH—Engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) here recently developed a robot for aerospace manufacturing applications. The machine uses advanced sensors to conduct real-time path planning and analysis as it moves around the outside of an aircraft.
The first deployment of the Advanced Automation for Agile Aerospace Applications (A5) robotic system will be for coating removal applications, such as sanding the surface of a C-17 cargo plane.