Product Architectures, Design, and Manufacturing for Operational Responsiveness
Abstract
This project demonstrated manufacturing cost and schedule gains by tightly coupling product architectures with manufacturing and design tools. Using adaptive manufacturing architectures and three dimensional printers this project iteratively designed, built, and tested a prototype unmanned aerial system (UAS) to demonstrate improvements over conventional manufacturing approaches. The project allows for iterative prototyping through 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. The project also includes 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 a new configuration.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- c971707063f661cac8df214f22251605