A 5-Axes Filament Winder with Software Control
Atangana Ateba, G. Verchery, Shahram Aivazzadeh · Science and Engineering of Composite Materials · 2004
This paper presents a filament winding system including a numerical control unit, a five-axes filament winding machine with heating device for thermoplastic prepregs, a micro-computer with controlling software PC-FIL 2.1.That software was firstly developed as PC-FIL 2.0 to control a 8-axes filament winder including the rotation of the mandrel, two translations and one rotation of the feed-eye and at last, two translations and two rotations of the heating head.The motions of both the feed-eye and the heating head were completely dissociated.III.This paper shows the simplifications realised to reduce from eight to five the number of axes to control.The controlling software PC-FIL 2.1 generates data for programming the control unit and also provides the user with simulation facilities, to visualize the process.The present version of PC-FIL 2.1 is available for revolution vessels of general shape.