The Live Robotic Draping Of Textile Fabrics To Be Demonstrated By The ITA Institut Für Textiltechnik At JEC World 2022
The ITA Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University will present a collaborative robot (cobot) including tools for semi-automated draping of textile fabrics at JEC World 2022 in Paris, May 3rd-5th.
The cobot is used without additional safety measures such as protective fences or light barriers thanks to integrated sensor technology. It can thus collaborate directly with humans.
Added value through joint draping of humans and robots
ITA has developed tools that allow joint draping of textiles by humans and cobots.
In addition to increasing draping quality and reproducibility, the focus in development was on occupational safety.
Other advantages of this new type of robot-assisted draping are that cobots are inexpensive to procure and easy to program.
This results in great flexibility in manufacturing and the possibility to produce small to medium quantities in an automated way.
How can these advantages be exploited in the production of fibre composite components?
This is what ITA is investigating, for example in the handling, draping and joining of the sensitive, limp textile material.
At the JEC, visitors will have the chance to interact live with the cobot and experience collaborative draping first hand.
The ITA Institut Für Textiltechnik
ITA will be demonstrating its expertise in the field of composite materials at the joint stand of the Aachen Center for Lightweight Construction (AZL) in Hall 6, Stand S50.
It will present innovations and research priorities in the production of reinforcing fibres, the textile processing of such high-modulus fibres and the impregnation of high-performance modulus fibres with thermoset as well as thermoplastic matrix systems.
The ITA will show the entire process chain, from fibre production and processing to the finished component, and will thus be able to present and discuss promising innovations at all levels.
It illuminates the issues of composite production and processing from the textile side.
The institute's expertise lies in the characteristics of reinforcement and matrix materials, load-oriented textile processing and the manufacture of components made of continuous fibre-reinforced plastics.
The Aachen Center for Lightweight Construction (AZL) as a superordinate partner as well as the partner institutes and companies at the booth cover further topics of FRPs.
These are, for example, the load-compliant design of components, plastics-side processing, and extensive testing of components.
