CTU in Prague/RCMT focuses long-term research on the development of solutions in machine tool design and advanced manufacturing. RCMT has extensive experience in digital twins, machine tool virtual models, virtual machining process simulations, process dynamics, machine tool CNC and feed drive control, and strategies of advanced tool path planning.

RCMT contributes by employing those competencies in the LaserWay project mainly in developing a prototype for laser blanking applications and a prototype for EHLA applications. In the prototype for laser blanking applications, one of the main challenges is machine tool high dynamics and dynamic control. RCMT contributes to these goals in collaboration with IDEKO, Fagor Automation, and ModuleWorks by developing the models of controlled structures dynamics using the strategies to quickly obtain a representative description of machine behavior by measurement and identification. We research also the strategies of offline programming optimization based on linear programming and feed-rate planning with FIR low-pass filtering of the input geometry.

In the EHLA topic, RCMT collaborates with Fraunhofer ILT and ACunity on the development of the EHLA machine concept, mechanical design, structural FE and optimization analysis, and application of CFRP materials in machine tool structure. The specific part is the machine tool digital twin developed by RCMT, which allows for advanced simulation of positioning dynamics and accuracy including the variable machine tool properties. To achieve EHLA machine tool high dynamics, RCMT addresses the advanced CNC and feed drive control techniques.