NRI-CMMUS-LSU

Large-scale manufacturing is common practice in several industries: transportation, maritime, energy, aerospace and construction. Finishing operations, such as trimming, sanding and painting, are necessary to guarantee tolerances and required properties are met. For humans, those tasks are stressful, and may lead to physical discomfort and potential for repetitive strain injury. To improve safety for human workers and the quality of work for finishing operations on large-scale parts, a team of autonomous mobile robots, assisted by human supervisors, can be deployed... Establish and demonstrate novel strategies for collaborative robotic systems performing post-processing operations (trimming and sanding), on large scale fiber-reinforced polymer parts without part re-positioning... The objective of this project is to design a distributed intelligent architecture for teams of mobile robots to perform finishing operations under human supervision.