TY - JOUR
AU - Wang, J C
AB - The global competition and shifts in consumer’s demand are forcing companies to enhance their productivity by reducing the manufacturing time, cost and increasing the value of final merchandise. Recent engineering researchers find that the additive manufacturing (AM) process could be an innovative solution due to its advantages in building complex shapes using different materials. However, the lack of developing tools to automate AM equipment has limited applying this technique to fabricate products within a production system. Thus, an internet of additive manufacturing(IoAM) system for the Vat photopolymerization process is proposed. The IoAM system is composed of three components which are described. The first one is the machine hardware integrated by all the various mechanical parts of a conventional Bottom-Up DLP 3D printer managed by a control board based on IoT technology. The second element is a web interface that controls and monitors a single or an array of machines from one or multiple operators and devices. The last module is firmware, which is the intermediary between the software and hardware. Besides, it is responsible for executing the adaptive control for the printing parameters, which has allowed to speed up the manufacturing process. The geometric calibration method to overcome distortion of photomask produced by DLP and the energy calibration algorithm to solve the non-uniform energy distribution have permitted to fabricate objects with high resolution around 30um in the XY axis and 50 μm as a layer thickness.
TI - Development of software and hardware components to the Internet of an additive manufacturing system based on vat photopolymerization technology
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/2020/1/012016
DA - 2021-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/iop-publishing/development-of-software-and-hardware-components-to-the-internet-of-an-H5CImJK2Im
VL - 2020
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -