An automatic, robot-based system is being developed to reduce the cost of repairing turboprop engine heat shields on the Navy's P-3 Orion sub-chasing aircraft. A Navy development contract released for an automated mechanical means of visually inspecting, identifying damage, and repairing the P-3 Orion aircraft engine heat shields without removing the engine from the wing. The purpose of the development program is to decrease the cost of recurring labor-intensive maintenance and repair for this aircraft, which has a projected continued use into the 1990s. A transportable system performs critical inspections and repairs the stainless steel heat shields that are located in restricted spaces around the aircraft engines. The system demonstrates an extension of technology from the robotics, medical, cartography, adhesive, and welding industries.
Aircraft engine maintenance: A problem and robotic solution
Flugzeugmotorenwartung: das Problem und die Roboterloesung
Technical Paper. Society of Manufacturing Engineers ; Apr ; 1-14
1987
14 Seiten, 11 Bilder
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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