The Mercer Engineering Research Center (MERC), under contract to the United States Air Force (USAF), was responsible for providing the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (WR-ALC) with a robotic workcell designed to perform automated defastening and hole location/transfer rework operations on F-15 wings. This paper describes the activities required to develop and implement this workcell, known as the Automated Aircraft Rework System (AARS). AARS achieved initial production status at WR-ALC in December 1994.
