28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-6.1.2

SENSOR AND REAL-TIME-PROCESS-SIMULATION GUIDED AUTOCLAVE PROCESS CONTROL FOR COMPOSITE PRODUCTION

N. Liebers, H. Ucan, M. Kleineberg, M. Wiedemann
DLR, Germany

Keywords: autoclave composite production, process control, real-time process simulation, online process monitoring, quality assurance

The presented autoclave process control is based on online quality assurance by modern sensor technologies and real-time autoclave process simulation performed simultaneously during the running production process. All obtained information by sensors and simulation are used for an open loop control for process optimization, quality assurance and scrap part prevention.

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