ABSTRACT
Composites were carefully designedmaterials suitable for specific applications and have gained intense popularity in products that needed to be strong enough but lightweight in order to bear harsh working conditions. Due to their attractive stiffness-to-weight and strength-to-weight ratios, fiber reinforced composites offered many advantages for aerospace, automotive and marine industries. Traditional approaches of producing fiber reinforced composites included filament winding techniques, manual hand lay-up and tapelaying. But all of thesemethods were time-consuming, labor intensive and will generate high levels of scrap material, whereas the current industries required more automated and cost-effective processes [1]. Robotic automated fiber placement (Robotic AFP) successfully addressed these industrial requirements and provided high flexibility and output rate. Moreover, it could also reduce the scrap of materials and was quite suitable for manufacturing large and complex composite structures.
