Patent ID: 8634950
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method for positioning and aligning aircraft fuselage or other aeronautical parts in relation to one another during structural assembly through use of a robot, an aeronautical part being supported by a support, the method comprising: structuring at least the support and the aeronautical part as a tool of the robot; measuring points on the support or on the aeronautical part supported by the support; in response to the measuring, establishing a coordinate system and a geographical center point for the aeronautical part based on the measured points and known specification information about the aeronautical part; using at least one computer processor, using the geographical center point as a robot tool center point (TCP); and using the at least one computer processor, using the robot TCP as a tooling alignment point to control the robot to automatically align the aeronautical part by controlling the robot to match the TCP of the aeronautical part driven by the robot and a center point of a further aeronautical part not driven by the robot to reach a best fit condition according to alignment tolerances.