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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2015
The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Lauren A. Burns, Melbourne, AU;
Max M. Osborne, Brighton, AU;
Martin A. Szarski, Canterbury, AU;
Ronnie K. Ligeti, Melbourne, AU;
David Pook, Melbourne, AU;
Andrew K. Glynn, Seattle, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system for manufacturing a composite structure includes a tool with a surface for supporting component elements of the composite structure. The surface is divided into a multi-dimensional array of thermal zones for in-process control of the temperature of a component element (e.g. resin) of the composite structure. The sensors sense a characteristic of the component element and provide sensor data, which is applied to a machine-learning algorithm configured to generate control data to achieve a defined quality goal. A controller then independently controls the thermal zones to locally heat, cool or maintain the temperature of the component element according to the control data to advance the component element or composite structure to the defined quality goal. This may be performed over a plurality of instances during which the machine-learning algorithm learns to increase advancement of the component element or composite structure to the defined quality goal.