Building an Airbus aircraft involves complex manufacturing processes consisting of thousands of moving parts. Speed and accuracy are critical to business and competitive advantage. Improvements in both would have high impact on Airbus’ bottom line. Airbus wanted to help operators reduce the complexity of assembling cabin seats and decrease the time required to complete this task.

The Central Advanced Research and Engineering Institute at Hyundai Motor Company develops future mobility technologies. Rather than provide conventional vehicle products to customers, this research center creates new mobility devices with a wide range of speeds for a variety of people, including the elderly and the disabled. As our society ages, there is a greater need for systems that can aid mobility. Thus, we are developing wearable exoskeleton robots with NI embedded controllers for the elderly and patients with spinal cord injuries to use.Key ChallengeDeveloping a system that can handle complex control algorithms to capture data remotely from various sensors simultaneously and perform real-time control of multiple actuators for a wearable robotics device for walking assistance.

RF2ANTENNA, a company specializing in wireless communications and charging, faced a challenge in designing a customized wireless charging system for wearable electronics. The traditional approach of experimental design was deemed time-consuming and costly as it required building different size coils and creating a measurement setup. The specific needs of wearable devices necessitated a custom design, which called for engineering simulations for a reasonably short, cost-effective design cycle. The challenge was to find a simulation software that could integrate a circuit solver with the electromagnetic solvers, to optimize the coil design process.