Strategies for a scalable multi-robot large scale wire arc additive manufacturing system

Alex Arbogast; Andrzej Nycz; Mark W. Noakes; Peter Wang; Christopher Masuo; Joshua Vaughan; Lonnie Love; Randall Lind; William Carter; Luke Meyer; Derek Vaughan; Alex Walters; Steven Patrick; Jonathan Paul; Jason Flamm

doi:10.1016/j.addlet.2023.100183

Strategies for a scalable multi-robot large scale wire arc additive manufacturing system

Alex Arbogast
, Andrzej Nycz
, Mark W. Noakes
, Peter Wang
, Christopher Masuo
, Joshua Vaughan
, Lonnie Love
, Randall Lind
, William Carter
, Luke Meyer
, Derek Vaughan
, Alex Walters
, Steven Patrick
, Jonathan Paul
, Jason Flamm

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Abstract

Conventional robotic wire arc additive manufacturing technologies enable the rapid production of moderate-sized 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.

Original language	English
Article number	100183
Journal	Additive Manufacturing Letters
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addlet.2023.100183
State	Published - Feb 2024

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The authors would like to thank Lincoln Electric for their contributions to this work. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy , Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Advanced Manufacturing , under contract number DE-AC05- 00OR22725 .

Keywords

3D printing
Additive manufacturing
Coordinated robot motion
Directed energy deposition
Machine intelligence
Robotics

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Arbogast, A., Nycz, A., Noakes, M. W., Wang, P., Masuo, C., Vaughan, J., Love, L., Lind, R., Carter, W., Meyer, L., Vaughan, D., Walters, A., Patrick, S., Paul, J., & Flamm, J. (2024). Strategies for a scalable multi-robot large scale wire arc additive manufacturing system. Additive Manufacturing Letters, 8, Article 100183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addlet.2023.100183

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