Journal
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING LETTERS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.addlet.2023.100183
Keywords
Additive manufacturing; Robotics; Machine intelligence; Directed energy deposition; Coordinated robot motion; 3D printing
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This paper presents a new approach to multi-robot collaborative manufacturing using a multi-agent control paradigm. The method allows multiple robots to work together on a rotating platform, resulting in increased deposition rate and productivity.
Conventional robotic wire arc additive manufacturing technologies enable the rapid production of moderatesized components using low-cost wire feedstocks and robotic welding systems. Efforts to date have primarily focused on single robot solutions. However, new configurations are possible with coordination of multiple robots and multi-degree of freedom positioners. This paper describes a new multi-agent control paradigm that enables multiple robots to work collaboratively on manufacturing a single component on a rotating platform. The advantages of this approach are increased deposition rate and productivity. This paper demonstrates this control strategy on a 19 degrees-of-freedom platform based on three wire arc additive systems surrounding a single rotating platform.
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