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At Airbus we continuously strive to reduce the weight of our aircraft ✈️. Replacing metal parts by #composites is one of the solutions we're looking into. Today, I was in Delft to kick off the #AeroFUSION project. In this project, SAM XL, Cato Composites BV, Toray Advanced Composites, TU Delft, Composite Technology Center / CTC GmbH (An Airbus Company) and Airbus join forces to accelerate the development of ultrasonic #welding for #thermoplastic composites. Ultrasonic welding is the process in which mechanical vibrations are used to locally generate heat to connect two composite parts. By successfully automating this process, we can reduce production costs ⬇️ and open up new opportunities for lightweight material applications ⬆️. At #AirbusTechHubNL we look forward to working closely with our partners 🤝 on this promising technology! #LiT #Groeifonds #AirbusTechHub #AirbusTechHubNL #Innovation #Composites #Aerospace Maryska MULLER Piet Woelcken Alexei Vichniakov Sarah Lee Rob Postma Daniel Reckzeh Eric Van der Veen Kristian van Drimmelen Aydin van den Bergh Bram Jongbloed Hein Koelman Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat Luchtvaart in Transitie

Boosting the High-Tech sector with advanced production technologies. 🖊️ Registration is open, please repost! Join us for three dynamic Innovation Days, showcasing cutting-edge developments in automation, robotization, composite materials and manufacturing technologies. This event features leading speakers, live demonstrations, and a rich agenda covering a wide range of topics, from academic insights to industry applications. It’s the perfect opportunity to exchange knowledge, explore new challenges, and connect with experts and partners in industry.   The aim: to shape the future of technology and innovation! Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. 👉 Read more and register: https://lnkd.in/gZVrtXtX   Clemens Dransfeld, Martin Kampinga, Baris Caglar, Henri Werij, Onur Yuksel, Oğuz ERYILMAZ.   Delft University of Technology, TU Delft | Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft Campus, NXTGEN Hightech, Composieten | NXTGEN Hightech, Philips, GKN Fokker, Airborne, Wageningen University & Research, VIVOLTA, RoboHouse, University of Bristol, Imperial College London, HEIG-VD, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), University of Augsburg, University of Twente, GKN Aerospace, Toray Advanced Composites, RWTH Aachen University    #NXTGEN #sustainableaviation #sustainablemobility #composites #thermoplastics #engineering #pioneeringtech #manufacturing #advancedmanufacturing #zeroprogramming #smartrobotics #industry40

Onze tweedejaars studenten technicus mechatronica uit Naaldwijk brachten op 4 december een inspirerend bezoek aan SAM XL, het fieldlab van de TU Delft dat gespecialiseerd is in innovatieve robotica-oplossingen. Tijdens een presentatie door business developer Aydin van den Bergh en een rondleiding langs de indrukwekkende XL-testopstellingen maakten de studenten kennis met baanbrekende technologieën zoals ultrasoon lassen van composieten, waarmee vliegtuigen sneller, lichter èn duurzamer kunnen worden gebouwd. ✈️ Het bezoek bood onze studenten – die momenteel het keuzedeel industriële robotica volgen – een unieke kijk op de toekomst van industriële automatisering. Sam XL benadrukte de kracht van multidisciplinaire samenwerking tussen productkennis, ICT en mechatronica en nodigde de studenten uit voor stages of afstudeeropdrachten. Een geweldige kans om bij te dragen aan innovatieve oplossingen met echte impact! Lees verder op: https://lnkd.in/eEPasGY7 #mbo #rocmondriaan #technicusmechatronica #industriëlerobotica

Showcasing our capabilities on mobile inspection robots at the “Robots in Business” event at RoboHouse! 🦾   Since we love to challenge ourselves, we are combining and integrating two technologies, to accomplish more added value to the industry. Mobile inspection of large parts is a need and it saves the time you would spend on dismantling the parts 🕙 ⬇️. The results are promising, explains technical lead Aashish Vatsyayan: “Basically, we are teaching a robot to detect the slightest defect. Our system is very flexible and we can change the sensors based on the application. First, the mobile system navigates to the part that needs inspection. Then we perform an initial scan using machine learning to detect defects or scratches. Traditionally, this is done manually. The second step involves using a sensor to perform a more detailed inspection on the defects. The inspection can be performed on the surface or sub-surface, depending on the sensors used. In this demo we are using a laser line scanner to perform a surface inspection”.   Compared to the current visual inspection 👁️ by humans, this system is expected to be faster and more accurate 🔍 in future, and way easier to configure than the current damage scanning solutions. Beside our scanning airplanes for damages, we are exploring possibilities for other industries. During the event, we connected to several businesses that showed interest. Think of automated scanning of the quality of train rails on a regular basis, to plan preventive maintenance before severe damaging occurs 🚆. Or scanning concrete structures for the smallest cracks, not visible to human eye 🏗️. This is relevant for high pressure labs, nuclear and other chemical plants where safety should be guaranteed to the highlest level. Inspecting large vessels as soon as they enter the harbour is another application where multi-sensor mobile inspection can be a valuable addition 🚢.   A big thank you to our Robotics Software Engineers that worked really hard to have the demo ready in time! Nikhil Sethi and Quang Nguyen worked on the laser line scanner, the sensor and how to get reliable data. Nithish Kumar did great stuff to have the mobile manipulator move precisely and autonomously. Special mention of our consultant Raul Montalvo de Roa, who has been collaborating with us for months to achieve this milestone. Read more on our project goals: ➡️ NXTGEN, zero defect programming: https://lnkd.in/e2pPFU_5 ➡️ Coresense, cognitive robots: https://lnkd.in/eFd8ZejN   #Industry40 #Innovation #Robotics #DamageDetection #ZeroProgramming #ZeroDefect

Sneak peek 👁️ of our final deliverables in the PeneloPe EU project: a video of every partner’s achievements in the aerospace pilot line ✈️!   In the past two years, we have been developing a closed-loop 🔄, zero-defect manufacturing strategy for flexible and modular manufacturing. Together with partners GKN Fokker, KVE, TNO, K-LOOPS, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia and ESI Group we are collaborating within the large European consortium with a focus on large scale manufacturing techniques 🏭. We are currently processing the raw video footage of each partner, which will be combined into a compilation video of all processes.   The SAM XL process you can see on the pictures, is aimed to reduce the overhead in programming new product variants in a production setting ⚙️. Using sensors, the current shape and dimensions of the product are determined and used to generate robot trajectories ⤴️. This approach allows us to generalise the production process to different parts and products. 👉 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eUp2i-gW Delft University of Technology, TU Delft | Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft Campus #industry40 #zeroprogramming #zerodefect #engineering #robottrajectory #manufacturing #automation #robotisering #maakindustrie

Celebrating Diwali! This Hindu Festival of Lights symbolizes the triumph of light ✨ over darkness and good over evil. It's a time to come together, celebrate, and share joy with each other 💖.   SAM XL is a colourful mix 🌈 of colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures. Not only do we share our knowledge with one another, but also our customs. And we feel fortunate to share such lovely food, from all across the planet 🍛🥙!   Thank you Nithish Kumar 🙏 for organizing this joyful celebration 🎶💃🕺!

#NXTGEN Innovation Days - Save the date! Please #repost Join us for three #highlights at Delft University of Technology and SAM XL ➡️ 5 February: Societal innovation in smart robotics ➡️ 6 February: Zero defect robotic composites manufacturing Followed by the special inauguration of the Delft TapeLab - the open research facility for unidirectional thermoplastic composite tapes. Developing the Composieten | NXTGEN Hightech materials for a #sustainableaviation: ➡️ 6 February 15h00: Inauguration act with networking event ➡️ 7 February 09h00: Inauguration symposium on related R&D With contributions from Airbus, GKN Fokker, Toray Advanced Composites, Production Technology - University of Twente, University of Bristol, University of Augsburg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), ITA Institut für Textiltechnik der RWTH Aachen University, HES-SO Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), van Wees UD and Crossply Technology with a poster session from TU Delft | Aerospace Engineering 🫵 Registration soon to open, limited seats, stay tuned! 🫵

Improving our motion planning skills! The participants are absorbing all there is to know about Tesseract 👩🏽🎓🧽.   During this training the participants learned to use Tesseract for constrained and optimization based motion planning. The training focused on applying this new knowledge to large-scale robotics 🤖 and mobile manipulation using our gantry robot and mobile manipulator 🦾. This will be of great value in a wide variety of motion planning problems, where traditional methods are not sufficient ⛔.   This training is made possible by the PeneloPe EU project. Within this project, we are designing a zero-defect manufacturing strategy based on online control and quality assurance 🔁. PeneloPe works on developing technologies, such as simulation models, online control, data analytics and Artificial Intelligence. Motion planning plays a critical role in all these processes.   Thank you Michael Ripperger from SwRI Structural Geology & Geomechanics for this excellent training. We will use the 🎦 recording for further dissemination with our partners in the project. More info 👉: https://lnkd.in/eUp2i-gW   #industry40 #dissemination #sharingknowledge #engineering #motionplanning #onlinecontrol #AI #DataAnalytics #zeroprogramming #zerodefect #penelope

The ‘Industry 4.0: factory of the future’ event hosted at SAM XL was very insightful 💡! Discover how TU Delft fieldlabs RoboHouse and SAM XL offer expertise 👩🎓, experience and an experimental environment to SMEs that want to take the next step in their digitalisation.   Whether you are struggling with staff shortages, tight margins or higher quality requirements ⬆️: together with Digitalzh, we offer companies in Zuid-Holland support to improve their business processes. Digitalzh also collaborates with other partners and experts to help implement innovations and to ensure employers learn necessary skills. Check out the video (Dutch).  https://lnkd.in/eMAzVrxu #industry40 #sme #digitalisation #industrie40 #mkb #digitaliseren Delft University of Technology, TU Delft Campus

"The government's announced cuts to education, research and innovation threaten to deteriorate opportunities in the Netherlands. Whereas we need to strengthen the business climate for innovative companies". Thank you Joost Sneller (member of Dutch parliament) for your commitment to start-ups, scale-ups, incubators and fieldlabs! We collectively need to urge politicians to support organisations that collaborate to resolve complex societal problems and to secure economic prosperity in the future. #innovation #techfund #economicgrowth #parliament #tweedekamer #innovatie #Groeifonds #economie #DeltaplanValorisatie #BoosterProgramma