Production system for the automated assembly of vehicle components and method for controlling a production system

US10967518B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Frank Neuhaus · Jork, DE
• Rainer Schildt · Hamburg, DE
• Wolfgang Juedes · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 11, 2019
• Grant date: Apr 6, 2021
• Expiry date: Jan 11, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A production system for automated assembly of vehicle components, in particular for automated assembly of structural components of an aircraft or spacecraft. The production system includes vehicle components with status sensors that can determine status data of the respective vehicle component, positioner units to grip the respectively associated vehicle component at mounting points and move the respectively associated vehicle component into an assembly position, a position-measurement system to determine the assembly position of each vehicle component, force sensors to determine at least one of reaction forces and moments of each gripped vehicle component at the mounting points in the assembly position, and a computer-based control system in data communication with the vehicle components, the positioner units, the position-measurement system and the force sensors, and configured to control the positioner units based on determined status data, the determined assembly positions and the determined reaction forces and moments of the vehicle components.