This Project was selected from the ARM Institute’s 23-01 Technology Project Call that addressed the following topic areas:
- Automated Robotic Task Planning
- Multi-Robot, Multi-Human Collaboration, Task Sharing & Task Allocation
- Safe and Scalable Manufacturing of Energetics
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Robotics for Manufacturing
- Discovery Workshops and Market Studies
Project Team:
Ohio State University (Principal Investigator), CapSen Robotics, Yaskawa, and Warner Robbins Air Force Base
Topic Areas Addressed:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Robotics for Manufacturing
Description:
This project builds on the outputs from the previously funded ARM Institute Autonomous Robotic Metal Forming project. There is a growing need for small volume, high mix manufacturing, such as in cases of manufacturing replacement components for aging systems or personalized medical implants. However, there is a limited supply chain for one-off components, and complex components require expensive machining and/or tooling and dies. This project seeks to drastically accelerate the productivity of the robotic system created in phase one of this project by:
- reducing the time required to position the component on the lower die
- removing the need for pauses during pressing to relieve forces and torques
- allowing for larger amounts of deformation to be taken on each iteration
- reducing the number of images needed for component geometry reconstruction
- reducing the time to heat material to forging temperatures
- reducing the amount of deformation needed to transform the initial geometry to the final geometry
- reducing the frequency of component imaging.