Development of a novel gantry system for cooperative printing of plastic materials
It is well known that Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a slow process when compared to conventional manufacturing processes. To address this problem, this paper explores the concept of cooperative printing due to its ability to significantly increase the printing speed. It discusses current cooperativ...
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| author | Alhijaily, Abdullah Kilic, Zekai Murat Bartolo, Paulo |
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| description | It is well known that Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a slow process when compared to conventional manufacturing processes. To address this problem, this paper explores the concept of cooperative printing due to its ability to significantly increase the printing speed. It discusses current cooperative printing systems and proposes a new multi-arm configuration to address current limitations such as reduced cooperative printing area. The proposed configuration allows printing parts that are impossible to print or inefficiently printed by other configurations. Moreover, to improve efficiency and reduce printing time, new algorithms are proposed, including the Intermediate Point Method for collision avoidance. This method is three times more effective at preventing collisions compared to the current state-of-the-art algorithms and generates paths with lower travel durations. The proposed system was successfully tested in printing several single and multi-layer objects, showing a significant speed increase, surpassing the maximum printing time reduction reported in the literature. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1747872024-04-13T16:48:59Z Development of a novel gantry system for cooperative printing of plastic materials Alhijaily, Abdullah Kilic, Zekai Murat Bartolo, Paulo School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Engineering Concurrent printing Additive manufacturing It is well known that Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a slow process when compared to conventional manufacturing processes. To address this problem, this paper explores the concept of cooperative printing due to its ability to significantly increase the printing speed. It discusses current cooperative printing systems and proposes a new multi-arm configuration to address current limitations such as reduced cooperative printing area. The proposed configuration allows printing parts that are impossible to print or inefficiently printed by other configurations. Moreover, to improve efficiency and reduce printing time, new algorithms are proposed, including the Intermediate Point Method for collision avoidance. This method is three times more effective at preventing collisions compared to the current state-of-the-art algorithms and generates paths with lower travel durations. The proposed system was successfully tested in printing several single and multi-layer objects, showing a significant speed increase, surpassing the maximum printing time reduction reported in the literature. Published version The authors wish to acknowledge the support from UKRI Inter-disciplinary Circular Economy for Textiles: Circular Bioeconomyfor textile materials [Project code: EP/V011766/1]. 2024-04-11T02:55:20Z 2024-04-11T02:55:20Z 2024 Journal Article Alhijaily, A., Kilic, Z. M. & Bartolo, P. (2024). Development of a novel gantry system for cooperative printing of plastic materials. Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 19(1), e2305208-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17452759.2024.2305208 1745-2759 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174787 10.1080/17452759.2024.2305208 2-s2.0-85184143899 1 19 e2305208 en Virtual and Physical Prototyping © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Engineering Concurrent printing Additive manufacturing Alhijaily, Abdullah Kilic, Zekai Murat Bartolo, Paulo Development of a novel gantry system for cooperative printing of plastic materials |
| title | Development of a novel gantry system for cooperative printing of plastic materials |
| title_full | Development of a novel gantry system for cooperative printing of plastic materials |
| title_fullStr | Development of a novel gantry system for cooperative printing of plastic materials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of a novel gantry system for cooperative printing of plastic materials |
| title_short | Development of a novel gantry system for cooperative printing of plastic materials |
| title_sort | development of a novel gantry system for cooperative printing of plastic materials |
| topic | Engineering Concurrent printing Additive manufacturing |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174787 |
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