Patent ID: 11958244
Assignee: nan
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 16:
17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:
capturing, using a tow sensor mounted on each one of the AFP heads, layup data of the layup material immediately after application by the AFP head;
receiving, at a processor, the layup data, along with a capture location of the layup data;
detecting, using the processor, anomalies in the green state layup by comparing the layup data to reference data containing examples of each type of anomaly potentially occurring in the green state layup; and
identifying, using the processor based on the comparison, an anomaly type of each anomaly present in the layup data, and determining, based on the capture location of the layup data, a location of each anomaly on the green state layup, to enable physically locating each anomaly for potential rework.