Swarm 3D Printing
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Swarm 3D Printing or Cooperative 3D Printing [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]is a digital manufacturing platform that employs a swarm of mobile robots with different functionalities to work together to print and assemble products based on digital designs. A digital design is first divided into smaller chunks and components based on its geometry and functions, which are then assigned to different specialized robots for printing and assembly in parallel and in sequence based on the dependency of the tasks [11][12]. The robots typically roam freely on an open factory floor and carry different tool head. Some common tool heads include material deposition tool heads (e.g., filament extruder, inkjet printhead), pick and place tool head for embedding of pre-manufactured components, laser cutter, welding tool, etc.
See also[edit]
- Ant robotics
- Autonomous agents
- Behavior-based robotics
- Flocking (behavior)
- Kilobot
- List of emerging technologies
- Microbotics
- Multi-agent system
- Nanorobotics
- Nanotechnology in fiction
- Physicomimetics
- Robotic materials
- Shooting Star (drone)
- Swarm intelligence
- Swarm robotic platforms
- Unmanned aerial vehicle/Quadcopter
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/robots-assemble-a-new-path-to-autonomous-mobile-3d-printing
- ↑ https://www.ge.com/reports/the-5-coolest-things-on-earth-this-week-4/
- ↑ O'Neal, Bridget (2 March 2019). "University of Arkansas: Research Group Delegates 3D Printing Duties to Their Swarm of Robots".
- ↑ Ackerman, Evan (28 August 2018). "Mobile Robots Cooperate to 3D Print Large Structures". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News.
- ↑ "3D-printing swarm robots pave the way for new construction possibilities". 9 October 2018.
- ↑ "What's next? Swarm 3D printing, i.e., synchronized 3D printing - Make Parts Fast". www.makepartsfast.com.
- ↑ "Siemens Contemplating "Swarm" 3D Printing?". Fabbaloo.
- ↑ Oxman, Neri, Jorge Duro‐Royo, Steven Keating, Ben Peters, and Elizabeth Tsai. "Towards robotic swarm printing." Architectural Design 84, no. 3 (2014): 108-115.
- ↑ Murphy, Mike; Murphy, Mike. "Siemens is building a swarm of robot spiders to 3D-print objects together". Quartz.
- ↑ "AMBOTS Brings Autonomous Collaboration to Manufacturing". All3DP. 27 March 2019.
- ↑ "The Chunker "chunk-based slicer" proposed for cobot 3D printing". 3D Printing Industry. 16 October 2018.
- ↑ Saunders, Sarah (21 December 2018). "Thesis Focuses on Using Cooperative 3D Printing with Robots to Improve the Technology's Scalability".
External links[edit]
- Fully decentralized robotic swarm performing collective search and exploration -- Applied Complexity Group and Motion, Energy Control Lab at SUTD
- Swarm-bots: Swarms of self-assembling artifacts -- EU IST-FET project (2001-2005)
- Award-winning swarm-bot video at AAAI 2007
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