A Review of Robotic Smart Manufacturing for Aviation Industry: Development Status, Key Technologies and Typical Scenarios
HUANG Sihan1,2, HUANG Ming1, ZHANG Yonghui1, PENG Zhicheng1, ZHANG Zhuo1, XU Zhe1, XING Hongwen3, ZHANG Xiang4, WANG Guoxin1,2, YAN Yan1,2
1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 10081, China;
2. Key Laboratory of High-end Equipment Knowledge & Data Fusion Technology and Application, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing 100081, China;
3. COMAC Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201324, China;
4. AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industry (Group) Co., Ltd., Chengdu 610091, China
The extensive application of industrial robots has become one of the key characteristics of smart manufacturing. With the accelerated advancement of intelligent manufacturing, robotic smart manufacturing is emerging as a crucial driver for industrial transformation and upgrading. In this context, this paper focuses on the challenges faced by the aviation industry, including high precision, multi-variety, variable-batch, and large-scale customized production, and systematically reviews the development status of robotic smart manufacturing in this field. The study highlights key technological advances such as high-precision perception and environmental modeling, precision manufacturing and control of individual robots, multi-robot collaborative and optimization, human–robot collaboration and hybrid operations, and digital twin-enabled manufacturing control. Furthermore, typical engineering practices and application results of robotic smart manufacturing in representative aircraft assembly scenarios are analyzed. This work aims to explore new-quality productive forces for the aviation industry under the paradigm of robotic smart manufacturing and to provide new pathways and momentum for its intelligent transformation and sustainable upgrading.
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