Vision-guided robotic automation of vat polymerization additive manufacturing production: design, calibration and verification
Purpose – This study aims to present a vision-guided robotic system design for application in vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing (AM), enabling vat photopolymerization AM hybrid with injection molding process. Design/methodology/approach – In the system, a robot equipped with a camera an...
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| author | Wenzhen Yang Johan K. Crone Claus R. Lønkjær Macarena Mendez Ribo Shuo Shan Flavia Dalia Frumosu Dimitrios Papageorgiou Yu Liu Lazaros Nalpantidis Yang Zhang |
| author_facet | Wenzhen Yang Johan K. Crone Claus R. Lønkjær Macarena Mendez Ribo Shuo Shan Flavia Dalia Frumosu Dimitrios Papageorgiou Yu Liu Lazaros Nalpantidis Yang Zhang |
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| description | Purpose – This study aims to present a vision-guided robotic system design for application in vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing (AM), enabling vat photopolymerization AM hybrid with injection molding process. Design/methodology/approach – In the system, a robot equipped with a camera and a custom-made gripper as well as driven by a visual servoing (VS) controller is expected to perceive objective, handle variation, connect multi-process steps in soft tooling process and realize automation of vat photopolymerization AM. Meanwhile, the vat photopolymerization AM printer is customized in both hardware and software to interact with the robotic system. Findings – By ArUco marker-based vision-guided robotic system, the printing platform can be manipulated in arbitrary initial position quickly and robustly, which constitutes the first step in exploring automation of vat photopolymerization AM hybrid with soft tooling process. Originality/value – The vision-guided robotic system monitors and controls vat photopolymerization AM process, which has potential for vat photopolymerization AM hybrid with other mass production methods, for instance, injection molding. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7704ec8df79348da89ab7e23e405e32a2023-07-04T06:52:19ZengEmerald PublishingJournal of Intelligent Manufacturing and Special Equipment2633-65962633-660X2023-06-0142859810.1108/JIMSE-01-2023-0001Vision-guided robotic automation of vat polymerization additive manufacturing production: design, calibration and verificationWenzhen Yang0Johan K. Crone1Claus R. Lønkjær2Macarena Mendez Ribo3Shuo Shan4Flavia Dalia Frumosu5Dimitrios Papageorgiou6Yu Liu7Lazaros Nalpantidis8Yang Zhang9Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DenmarkDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DenmarkDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DenmarkDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DenmarkDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DenmarkDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DenmarkDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DenmarkSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, ChinaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DenmarkDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DenmarkPurpose – This study aims to present a vision-guided robotic system design for application in vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing (AM), enabling vat photopolymerization AM hybrid with injection molding process. Design/methodology/approach – In the system, a robot equipped with a camera and a custom-made gripper as well as driven by a visual servoing (VS) controller is expected to perceive objective, handle variation, connect multi-process steps in soft tooling process and realize automation of vat photopolymerization AM. Meanwhile, the vat photopolymerization AM printer is customized in both hardware and software to interact with the robotic system. Findings – By ArUco marker-based vision-guided robotic system, the printing platform can be manipulated in arbitrary initial position quickly and robustly, which constitutes the first step in exploring automation of vat photopolymerization AM hybrid with soft tooling process. Originality/value – The vision-guided robotic system monitors and controls vat photopolymerization AM process, which has potential for vat photopolymerization AM hybrid with other mass production methods, for instance, injection molding.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JIMSE-01-2023-0001/full/pdfVision-guided robotic systemAutomationVat photopolymerizationSoft tooling process |
| spellingShingle | Wenzhen Yang Johan K. Crone Claus R. Lønkjær Macarena Mendez Ribo Shuo Shan Flavia Dalia Frumosu Dimitrios Papageorgiou Yu Liu Lazaros Nalpantidis Yang Zhang Vision-guided robotic automation of vat polymerization additive manufacturing production: design, calibration and verification Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and Special Equipment Vision-guided robotic system Automation Vat photopolymerization Soft tooling process |
| title | Vision-guided robotic automation of vat polymerization additive manufacturing production: design, calibration and verification |
| title_full | Vision-guided robotic automation of vat polymerization additive manufacturing production: design, calibration and verification |
| title_fullStr | Vision-guided robotic automation of vat polymerization additive manufacturing production: design, calibration and verification |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vision-guided robotic automation of vat polymerization additive manufacturing production: design, calibration and verification |
| title_short | Vision-guided robotic automation of vat polymerization additive manufacturing production: design, calibration and verification |
| title_sort | vision guided robotic automation of vat polymerization additive manufacturing production design calibration and verification |
| topic | Vision-guided robotic system Automation Vat photopolymerization Soft tooling process |
| url | https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JIMSE-01-2023-0001/full/pdf |
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