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Home › Projects › Mixed Multi–Angle Robotic IR Camera Control for Thermomechanical Surface Processes

Mixed Multi–Angle Robotic IR Camera Control for Thermomechanical Surface Processes

Mixed IR Camera Team

Background

Current surface processes for aerospace and defense are highly complex, frequently poor yield, and require long and expensive development and qualification processes, all of which contribute to high development, production and deployed system maintenance costs. The project team worked to develop a robotic system for monitoring thermomechanical surface processes of advanced composite materials. By combining in-situ sensing, simulation, and robot motion, the technology can be applied across many applications and industries.

Objective

Develop a smart, highly automated surface processing system of advanced composite materials.

Technical Approach

This project focused on the following developments:

  • Integrating IR camera measurements with thermomechanical model
  • Processing uncertainty awareness
  • Developing information-theoretic robot path-planning and control algorithms
  • Implementing as hardware-in-the-loop system with virtual surface treatment process
  • Innovations in non-prescribed path-planning and robot control

Participants

Siemens (Principal Investigator), Lockheed Martin, UC Berkeley

Project Type

Technology

Advisor Robot

Inspection

Surface Treatment

Path Planning

Virtual Modeling

Year Completed

2019

Project Team

Lockheed Martin

UC Berkeley

Principle Investigator

Siemens

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