Additive Manufacturing Cloud via Peer-Robot Collaboration

Cloud manufacturing system

Cloud manufacturing is defined as a relationship between the consumer and a flexible array of production services, managed by an intervening architecture that can match service providers to product and manufacturing processes Cloud manufacturing definitions typically make explicit or imply three groups of actors: consumers, who request and use cloud manufacturing processes; application provider...

Survey on Additive Manufacturing, Cloud 3D Printing and Services

Cloud Manufacturing (CM) is the concept of using manufacturing resources in a service oriented way over the Internet. Recent developments in Additive Manufacturing (AM) are making it possible to utilise resources ad-hoc as replacement for traditional manufacturing resources in case of spontaneous problems in the established manufacturing processes. In order to be of use in these scenarios the A...

Enabling human-robot collaboration via argumentation

A case is made for logical argumentation as a means for enabling true collaboration between human and robot partners. The majority of human-robot systems involve interactions in which the robot is subordinate, and all high-level decision making is performed by the human. However, in order to enable human-robot partnerships, both parties must be able to participate in constructive dialogue where...

Quality part production via multi-laser additive manufacturing

3D printed microfluidic circuitry via multijet-based additive manufacturing.

The miniaturization of integrated fluidic processors affords extensive benefits for chemical and biological fields, yet traditional, monolithic methods of microfabrication present numerous obstacles for the scaling of fluidic operators. Recently, researchers have investigated the use of additive manufacturing or "three-dimensional (3D) printing" technologies - predominantly stereolithography - ...