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

Claim 6:
7. The manufacturing system of claim 1, further comprising:
at least three tow sensors respectively mounted on the at least three AFP heads, the tow sensor of each AFP head configured to capture layup data regarding the layup material immediately after application by the AFP head;
a processor configured to:
receive the layup data, along with a capture location of the layup data;
detect 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
identify, based on the comparison, an anomaly type of each anomaly present in the layup data, and determine, based on the capture location of the layup data, a location of each anomaly in the green state layup, to enable physically locating each anomaly for potential rework.