An automated manufacturing system for constructing an engineered textile from a workpiece composed of superposed wires , the manufacturing system comprising: a movable end effector ; a processing head mounted to the movable end effector ; a position sensor configured to determine real-time positions of the processing head relative to a calibrated origin position and output sensor signals indicative thereof; and a system controller operatively connected to the movable end effector , the position sensor , and the processing head , the system controller being programmed to: determine a plurality of predefined joint locations for the superposed wires ; command the movable end effector to sequentially move the processing head to align the processing head with each of the predefined joint locations; receive, from the position sensor , the sensor signals indicative of the real-time positions of the processing head ; determine, from the received sensor signals and a captured image of the workpiece , an estimated distance between each of the real-time positions of the processing head and a next adjacent one of the predefined joint locations; estimate a plurality of desired trajectories for the processing head each based on the estimated distance between the real-time position of the processing head and the respective next adjacent one of the predefined joint locations; and command the processing head to join the superposed wires at the predefined joint locations to form the engineered textile . a movable end effector ; a processing head mounted to the movable end effector ; a position sensor configured to determine real-time positions of the processing head relative to a calibrated origin position and output sensor signals indicative thereof; and a system controller operatively connected to the movable end effector , the position sensor , and the processing head , the system controller being programmed to: determine a plurality of predefined joint locations for the superposed wires ; command the movable end effector to sequentially move the processing head to align the processing head with each of the predefined joint locations; receive, from the position sensor , the sensor signals indicative of the real-time positions of the processing head ; determine, from the received sensor signals and a captured image of the workpiece , an estimated distance between each of the real-time positions of the processing head and a next adjacent one of the predefined joint locations; estimate a plurality of desired trajectories for the processing head each based on the estimated distance between the real-time position of the processing head and the respective next adjacent one of the predefined joint locations; and command the processing head to join the superposed wires at the predefined joint locations to form the engineered textile . determine a plurality of predefined joint locations for the superposed wires ; command the movable end effector to sequentially move the processing head to align the processing head with each of the predefined joint locations; receive, from the position sensor , the sensor signals indicative of the real-time positions of the processing head ; determine, from the received sensor signals and a captured image of the workpiece , an estimated distance between each of the real-time positions of the processing head and a next adjacent one of the predefined joint locations; estimate a plurality of desired trajectories for the processing head each based on the estimated distance between the real-time position of the processing head and the respective next adjacent one of the predefined joint locations; and command the processing head to join the superposed wires at the predefined joint locations to form the engineered textile . <EOS>