Composites have become the go-to material of the aerospace industry during the past
decades and a significant uptake in composite materials for aerospace applications was …

With the rapid advancement in the manufacturing industry, there has been a massive rise in
the demand for products made of fiber reinforced polymer composites as they have high …

Hand layup is a commonly used process for making composite structures from several plies
of carbon-fiber prepreg. The process involves multiple human operators manipulating and …

Inspection of dry carbon textiles is a key step to ensure quality in aerospace manufacturing.
Due to the rarity and variety of defects, collecting a comprehensive defect dataset is difficult …

Many assembled products contain parts that are not rigid, and there is a large variety of such
parts, which might be as different as cables, sheet metals, plastic covers, or foams. The …

This paper explores the issue of protective film removal in the hand layup process for
composite parts production. The hand layup process, involving the assembly of prepreg …

Fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) production in many cases involves expensive molds, which
especially hinders cost-effective production of small series and prototypes. In metal parts …

The composite sheet layup process involves stacking several layers of a viscoelastic
prepreg sheet and curing the laminate to manufacture the component. Demands for …

High-performance composites are increasingly being used in the industry. Sheet layup is a
process of manufacturing composite components using deformable sheets. We have …

In this study an automated composite layup end effector is presented which is the first to be
able to find defects in real time during layup using tactile shape sensing. Based around an …