Product Architectures, Design and Manufacturing for Operational Responsiveness
Abstract
This project demonstrated the gains to be realized by tightly coupling product architectures with manufacturing and design tools, using a prototype unmanned aerial system (UAS) architecture for demonstration purposes. The UAS architecture serves as a test bed for research in system physical and autonomy architectures and their complementary design tools in applying additive manufacturing to accelerate development by orders of magnitude. The demonstration platform for this effort is a modular, rapidly designed and reconfigurable UAS with modules built using additive manufacturing, to enable: construction at any location; structural design tools and methods that guide and constrain designers to provide guarantees on performance and manufacturability; a layered control system architecture that reuses the supervisory and actuator levels of control; and, a system level design tool that allows the user to configure a new vehicle, predict its performance, and automatically generate the flight control laws for the new configuration.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- 146ddf0cf4914872c1e783c33994f7c9