Assembly Tooling for the Fast Rotorcraft Project

Project Information

ASTRO

Grant agreement ID: 785355

DOI

10.3030/785355

Project terminated on 28 June 2021

EC signature date 13 February 2018

Start date 1 March 2018

End date 28 February 2022

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport

Total cost

€ 712 500,00

EU contribution

€ 498 750,00

Coordinated by

LANGA INDUSTRIAL SA
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 3 - ASTRO (Assembly Tooling for the Fast Rotorcraft Project)

Reporting period: 2020-09-01 to 2022-02-28

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The objective of the project is to get a complete set of assembly and maintenance tooling, including auxiliary tooling. Due to
the tight tolerances required in aeronautical industry, Some assembly jigs will be equipped with an optical structured light
measure system that will allow the set up of the tooling and the position verification of the parts during assembly with
tolerances equal or under 0.1 mm. The use of this kind of systems are spearhead in the field of precision measurement and
the advantages against currently measurement systems, as laser tracker, will be shown in following paragraphs. In addition,
optical systems are becoming the preferred measurement systems in automatized assembly jigs which will be the step
forward in the aeronautical assembly lines.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Performed activities Assembly Tooling:
Requirements freeze: tooling requirements defined with AIRBUS.
Tools interface with Rotorcraft defined.
Complete definition of the assembly tooling with 3D designs.
Tools in operation defined.
Interferences in operation with helicopter solved.
Manufacturing 2D drawings and operation manuals ongoing.

Performed activities Maintenance Tooling:
Design of the Assembly-Maintenance platforms.

Performed activities Management:
Management of project costs and grant agreement aspects.
Monitoring and checking of technical work.
Monitoring of administrative aspects and objectives follow up

Performed activities of the OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM:
Complete definition of the measurement system based in cameras and structured light

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Main impact of the project is the high technical challenge of Wing Support Tool. High precision needed for wing positioning and a platform with 6 freedom degrees could be used in future equipments for military as well as civil purposes.

General view. Dedicated tooling