Filament Winding Simulation for Robotic Cell Design

Filament winding is gaining increasing importance due to the widespread availability of modern automation techniques. This requires high designing efforts in order to exploit such a potentiality. For the achievement of high level of accuracy, numeric controlled industrial robots are used to carry special designed delivery eye. Moreover, the necessity to process complex shape objects leads to consider different alternatives to deliver the fiber along the same model. In this paper, we developed a simulation model for such a robotic cell in an integrated software environment. In order to simulate and evaluate the filament winding process, a peculiar methodology has been developed. This investigates on the possibility to perform the winding operation by taking in account various questions such as fiber damaging and degrees of freedom allocation on the robotic cells. A test case has been adopted in order to check the feasibility of our approach. Finally, the simulated cell has been implemented in order to actually perform the reproduced filament winding operation.