Title:
Disruptive technologies for digital transformation of automated composite processes in the aerospace industry – stream 1: Innovative robotic platforms for manufacturing and joining thermoplastic aerostructures
Agreement Value:
$385,330.00
Agreement Date:
Jan 13, 2021 - Apr 30, 2024
Description:
There is a clear trend in industry to move towards integrated, intelligent cyber physical manufacturing systems. Digital transformation of manufacturing processes is a key element in this industrial movement. Composite materials play important roles in the aerospace industry; however, the digital transformation of processes is slow because of the complexity of composite materials and processes, lack of reliable low-cost alternative manufacturing solutions, and safety. This Project focuses on exploring a series of innovative and disruptive game-changing enabling technologies and demonstrating their benefits on digital transformation of two essential stages of automated composite processes, i.e., lamination/forming and joining. Digital transformation is enabled by introducing automation, robotics, modeling, and computer vision.
Organization:
National Research Council Canada
Expected Results:
In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.
Reference Number:
172-2020-2021-Q4-968965
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
000000000
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Additional Information:
This agreement has been amended 1 time(s). The end date of this agreement has been modified by 152 days.
Amendment Date
Nov 30, 2023
Recipient's Legal Name:
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt E.V. German Aerospace Center
Program:
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program – Ideation Fund
Program Purpose:
The Ideation Fund is intended to encourage, test and validate transformative research ideas generated by teams of NRC scientific personnel and external collaborators with complementary capabilities, acting as a demonstration phase for a continually-evolving suite of research and development (R&D) deliverables at the NRC. The fund supports exploratory research through two mechanisms: the New Beginnings Initiative and the Small Teams Initiative.
NAICS Code:
541710 - R&D in the physical, engineering and life sciences