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Publication date: 18 April 2023

Wenzhen Yang, Johan K. Crone, Claus R. Lønkjær, Macarena Mendez Ribo, Shuo Shan, Flavia Dalia Frumosu, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Yu Liu, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Yang Zhang

This study aims to present a vision-guided robotic system design for application in vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing (AM), enabling vat photopolymerization AM hybrid…

Abstract

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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Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and Special Equipment, vol. 4 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2633-6596

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