Automated Manufacturing Process Integrated with Intelligent Tooling Systems (AUTOMAN)

Automan将开发和展示先进的制造工艺和采用智能自动化技术的新型系统-数字可重新配置的工具、集成了计算机视觉和人工智能模拟软件的机器人机械手。新系统将用于生产高质量的定制3D功能和复杂结构部件，包括轻型车身面板、高性能建筑覆层立面和大型整体部件。通过使用智能机器人机械，拟议的自动化制造方法将能够快速制造和灵活处理新型先进金属合金和混杂增强复合材料中的大型化合物或自由形状定制部件，用于跨行业应用-简而言之，精益、敏捷和自适应制造。受益于这项工作的工业部门将包括汽车、航空航天、铁路、海洋、能源、建筑、材料加工和工具行业。

AUTOMAN will develop and demonstrate advanced manufacturing processes and novel systems deploying intelligent automation technologies - digitally re-configurable tooling, robotic manipulators integrated with computer vision and artificial intelligence simulation software. The new systems will be for producing high-quality customised 3D functional and complex structural parts of lightweight vehicle body panels, high-performance building cladding facades and large integral components. Through the use of intelligent robotic machinery, the proposed automated manufacturing approach will enable rapid fabrication and flexible processing of large compound or freeform customised components in new advanced metallic alloys and hybrid reinforced composites for cross-sector applications - in short, Lean, Agile and Adaptive manufacturing. Industrial sectors benefitting from this work will include the automotive, aerospace, railways, marine, energy, construction, materials processing and tooling industries.