Journal
COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
Volume 70, Issue 1, Pages 155-162Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-022-02160-3
Keywords
Swarm manufacturing; Numerical modeling; Advection-diffusion equation; Finite difference
Funding
- Italian Minister of University and Research [2017L7X3CS]
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This paper introduces a method for manufacturing using swarm robotics, which offers flexible, autonomous, and highly robust solutions. The paper also provides a numerical implementation and examples to demonstrate the potential of this method in predicting swarm behaviors.
Manufacturing large and/or complex structural components is today non-trivial and far-too expensive, due to limitations in the state-of-the-art production processes. Swarm robotics could then bring a different perspective and it may promise flexible, autonomous, and highly robust solutions for a large variety of applications; hence, its adoption in industry and construction may change manufacturing rules. The present contribution introduces a continuous model to capture the behavior of a swarm of manufacturing agents (e.g., drones, 3D printers, etc.. ) as well as a very simple, but effective, numerical implementation to simulate the evolution of such a swarm. The paper also presents one- and two-dimensional examples, showing the potentiality of the proposed approach in predicting swarm behaviors.
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