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Home › Projects › Agile Robotic Path Planning for Spray Coating of Complex Geometry

Agile Robotic Path Planning for Spray Coating of Complex Geometry

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This robotics project was selected from the ARM Institute’s 24-01 Technology Project Call, which centered on the following special topic areas: Multi-Modal Inputs for AI Robotics in Manufacturing, Rapid Re-Tasking and Robot Agility, Multi-Robot, Multi-Human Collaboration, and Virtual Commissioning of Advanced Robotic Systems.

Principal Investigator:

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Project Team:

Manufacturing Automation Systems (MAS) and the Ohio State University (OSU)

Description: 

First time quality is difficult to achieve in current high tolerance, large, complex robotic coatings applications within the Defense Industrial Base, leading to excessive manual rework, re-programming, and increased product lead time. Challenges with mapping complex surface geometries to ensure surface coverage without overspray onto other surfaces makes the coating and finishing of complex geometry parts difficult. This project team will seek to create autonomous robotic path planning software for coating and finishing of complex geometry that can leverage metrology measurement data.

Project Type

Technology

Artificial Intelligence

Autonomy

Surface Finishing

Surface Treatment

Sustainment

Year Completed

2025

Project Team

Manufacturing Automation Systems (MAS)

Ohio State University (OSU)

Principle Investigator

Northrop Grumman Corporation

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