Patents & Publications
Patents:
Swarm Manufacturing for Smart Factory
🇺🇸 US11975486B2 • Issued May 7, 2024
The present invention provides a swarm manufacturing platform, based on a swarm 3D printing and assembly (SPA) platform as a model for future smart factories, consisting of thousands of IoT-based mobile robots performing different manufacturing operations with different end effectors and real-time monitoring.
An Improved Swarm 3D Printing Platform
🇺🇸 US20220143911A1 • Issued May 12, 2022
A system that uses autonomous robots for 3D manufacturing an object where the robots have different tool heads for performing different manufacturing operations.
Selective Resistive Sintering - A New Additive Manufacturing Method
🇺🇸 US11247462B2 • Issued Feb 15, 2022
A system and method for selective heating and/or sistering of a material including first and second substances, an array of one or more resistive heating elements arranged on a planar surface of a substrate and material to be heated located on the other substrate.
Cooperative 3D Printing Platform
🇺🇸 US11718041B2 • Issued Aug 8, 2023
A 3D printing system comprising a plurality of printers. The printers are motorized to allow movement in X and Y directions or to rotate freely. Each printer may have one or more printheads. Also provided is a surface independent from said printers adapted to receive a printed object.
Publications:
Towards Swarm Manufacturing: Architecting A Cooperative 3D Printing System
🗞️ ASME - Journal of Manufacturing Science & Engineering
📍 New York, NY • Feb 16, 2022
This paper presents a fully integrated and functional cooperative 3D printing platform with all necessary components and outlines how they work in unison from a system-level perspective.
Architecting the Cooperative 3D Printing System
🗒️ ASME - Design Engineering Technical Conference
📍 St. Louis, MO • Aug 17, 2020
This paper presents a fully integrated and functional cooperative 3D printing platform with all necessary components, including chunker, slicer, scheduler, printing robots, build floor, and outline how they work in unison from a system-level perspective.
Fabrication and Control of a Microheater Array for Powder Sintering
🗞️ Springer - Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
📍 New York, NY • Nov 10, 2017
Microheater Array Powder Sintering (MAPS) is a novel additive manufacturing process that uses a microheater array to replace the laser of selective laser sintering as the energy source. This paper presents the fabrication of a platinum microheater array.
A Mobile 3D Printer for Cooperative 3D Printing
🗒️ University of Texas - 28th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium
📍 Austin, TX • Aug 7, 2017
Cooperative 3D printing is an emerging technology that aims to provide scalability to 3D printing by enabling multiple mobile robots to cooperate on a single printing job. This paper presents a mobile 3D printer with a filament extrusion printhead.
Fabrication and Control of a Microheater Array for Powder Sintering
🗒️ University of Texas - 28th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium
📍 Austin, TX • Aug 7, 2017
This paper presents the fabrication, packaging, and control of a platinum microheater array that has a target operation temperature of 400 °C and a response time of ~1 ms for the MAPS process.