Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“It may be desirable to perform a plurality of operations on a large part, such as an aircraft and/or acomponent thereof. However, it may be difficult to precisely perform the plurality of operations at desiredlocations on the composite part in an automated fashion and/or utilizing conventional robotic systems,which may determine a location for each operation based upon and/or within a global coordinate system.Thus, there exists a need for layup mandrels with embedded textured pins, for methods of manufacturinglayup mandrels, for methods of repairing layup mandrels, for systems for forming composite parts, formethods of forming composite parts, for robotic systems, and for methods of operating robotic systems,according to the present disclosure.”
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