Aircraft Component Configurator for Installation Space
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for designing and installing aircraft components do not adequately account for available installation space and user movement, leading to inefficient assembly processes and potential safety risks due to interactions with adjacent components.
Innovation Solution
A component configurator that detects characteristics of the component and available installation space, generating geometrically different variants to ensure easy access and safe installation, while considering adjacent components and user movement paths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional CAD programs are used to design components, then component design can be achieved, but the assembly process becomes time-consuming and costly due to inadequate consideration of installation space and user movement
Solution Approach 1:
The component configurator performs preliminary analysis of the installation environment, detecting adjacent components and calculating available movement space before the actual assembly process. This allows the system to pre-determine optimal component orientations and identify potential assembly obstacles, enabling workers to prepare appropriately and reduce on-site assembly time
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides real-time feedback to assembly workers by displaying the detected installation environment, available movement space, and recommended component orientations. This feedback loop allows workers to adjust their assembly approach based on the calculated spatial constraints and adjacent components, improving assembly efficiency and reducing errors
2Reliability
If components are designed without considering user movement space, then design complexity is reduced, but safety risks increase due to potential contact with adjacent components
Solution Approach 1:
The component configurator acts as an intermediary between the component design and the installation environment. It detects and analyzes the installation space, adjacent components, and user movement requirements, then translates this information into design recommendations that ensure safe assembly without requiring complex manual calculations or safety assessments by workers
3Adaptability or versatility
If component variants are generated without considering available free space, then design flexibility is improved, but installation efficiency decreases due to difficult-to-access areas
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality analysis by evaluating the installation environment at specific locations where components will be installed. It detects adjacent components and calculates available movement space for each specific installation position, then generates component variants that are optimized for those local conditions, ensuring both design flexibility and installation efficiency
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed here is a component configurator that generates variants of an aircraft component to be installed. The component configurator includes a detection unit that detects a characteristic of the component, and that determines an available free space for an installation of the component in an installation environment. The available free space is defined by a geometry of the component and/or is dependent on a moving space required by a user. The detection unit is configured to generate geometrically different variants of the component based on the free space available for the installation of the component in the installation environment. The disclosed subject matter further relates to a method for generating variants of an aircraft component to be installed, a program element as well as a computer readable medium on which a program element is stored.