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Effective Human-Robot Teaming to Advance Aviation Manufacturing (NASA University-Led Initiative) is sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.
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NASA University Leadership Initiative Effective Human-Robot Teaming to Advance Aviation Manufacturing This project aims to transform manufacturing processes in commercial aviation that have traditionally been resistant to automation. These manual processes have become significant bottlenecks in an increasingly efficient and automated production pipeline, while posing significant risk to the health and safety of human workers.
This project team aims to address the challenge of assisting skilled aviation workers in these tasks by developing technologies that augment and complement human capabilities rather than attempting to entirely automate them.
Specifically, the project will improve the efficiency and ergonomics of these manual processes through the process-centered development of a flexible human-robot collaboration platform that will provide skilled aviation technicians with intelligent assistance.
The project team will develop this platform and its applications across a range of manufacturing processes that are central and critical to the aerospace industry, focusing on for processes for development and testing: (1) riveting, (2) hand layup, (3) sanding, and (4) the installation of interior furnishings. The research activities will center around five key challenges.
First, the research team will develop a shared human-robot collaboration platform that will integrate core capabilities for task assistance and that will serve as the basis for development to address the other research challenges.
The remaining technical challenges will involve extending the shared platform with specific capabilities to support each of the four manufacturing processes in order to significantly improve process efficiency and worker ergonomics and its assessment in the laboratory and demonstration at Boeing facilities for technology transfer.
Specifically, addressing each of these challenges will involve (1) modeling the manufacturing process, such as hand layup, (2) developing human-robot task plans that optimize efficiency and ergonomics, (3) developing specific capabilities for the collaborative robot platform, (4) carrying out laboratory assessments of the solutions, and (5) working with Boeing engineers to transfer research products into manufacturing environments.
The project will provide the aviation manufacturing industry with new capabilities (robot hardware, control mechanisms, and user interfaces), opportunities (partial automation through human-robot teaming), and guidelines (empirical validation, industry best practices) for automation toward transforming the efficiency and safety of processes that have become production bottlenecks.
In addition to improvements in current practices in aviation manufacturing, for example through technology transfer to Boeing, these capabilities, opportunities, and guidelines will have the potential to shape effective manufacturing methods and models for short-haul aircraft manufacturing where automation is even more challenging due to high variability of operations.
These potential improvements will significantly benefit the competitiveness of the United States in near- and long-term aviation manufacturing.
Beyond aviation manufacturing, the technologies, models, and methods that result from the project will benefit other manufacturing industries, such as automotive, as well as core capabilities of robotic technologies, which will contribute to improving US competitiveness across several industries.
Primary U.S. Work Locations and Key Partners Organizations Performing Work Role Type Location The University of Wisconsin, Madison Lead Organization Academic Madison, WI Boeing Supporting Organization Industry Chicago, IL Organizational Responsibility Responsible Mission Directorate Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) The University of Wisconsin, Madison Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program Technology Maturity (TRL)
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Effective Human-Robot Teaming to Advance Aviation Manufacturing (NASA University-Led Initiative) is funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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