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Development of an Automated and Adaptive System for Robotic Hybrid-Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (H-WAAM)

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Robotics and Mechatronics (ISRM 2019)

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In wire arc additive manufacturing, weld beads are deposited layer-by-layer leading to the final part geometry. The printed geometry of the weld bead depends on various factors and is therefore hard to predict and control accurately. These errors will lead to large deviation between the actual and the expected print layer thickness, deteriorates the print’s geometry and hinders subsequent print layer. This paper describes an adaptive system for Hybrid-Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing that is capable of automatically sensing, correcting and updating the printed layer behavior to address the above issues. The details of the developed system and the employed universal framework is described, and experiments were conducted to demonstrate its capabilities and effectiveness.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of SUTD Digital Manufacturing and Design Centre (https://dmand.sutd.edu.sg).

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  1. Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore

    Audelia Gumarus Dharmawan, Yi Xiong, Shaohui Foong & Gim Song Soh

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  1. School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Chin-Hsing Kuo

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Pei-Chun Lin

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

    Terence Essomba

  4. Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

    Guan-Chen Chen

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Dharmawan, A.G., Xiong, Y., Foong, S., Soh, G.S. (2020). Development of an Automated and Adaptive System for Robotic Hybrid-Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (H-WAAM). In: Kuo, CH., Lin, PC., Essomba, T., Chen, GC. (eds) Robotics and Mechatronics. ISRM 2019. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 78. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30036-4_29

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