Robotic Die-Less Forming Strategy for Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Composites Production

Fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) production in many cases involves expensive molds, which especially hinders cost-effective of small series and prototypes. In metal parts production, incremental sheet forming (ISF) is an established process for creating individual through a flexible die-less process. Establishing similar FRP desirable but challenging, as deformation mechanisms endless differ significantly from sheets. Using just two movable standard tools, bending shear woven fabric needs to be realized. Thus, determining feasible paths the robot guided tools desired geometries one biggest challenges. this paper, we propose strategy highly automated based upon theoretical background draping mechanisms. We investigate basic experimental setup, generating hemisphere tetrahedron.