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Abstract | ||
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This paper demonstrates a method for developing in-situ actuation retrofitted onto an additive manufacturing platform. By printing and programming a cantilever beam automated to deploy and actuate without human intervention, one may extend the functionality of an additive manufacturing platform without installing additional hardware. The design leverages a common Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) platform to physically validate the concept through experiment. Kinetics are repeatedly measured and referenced to develop over two dozen generations of in-situ actuator designs, each a function of programming the specific manipulation of the FFF platform's gantry-code. The resulting lever fabricated onto the build plate can be embedded into the machine's design envelope to deploy other fabricated objects off of the build plate. As a proof of concept to demonstrate the actuator's utility, a Prusa MK3S3D printer is used to fabricate an in-situ actuator which is automated to deploy a simultaneously printed spherical 3D printed structure. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2020 | 10.1109/AIM43001.2020.9158926 | 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) |
Keywords | DocType | ISSN |
actuator designs,additive manufacturing,cantilever beam printing,cantilever beam programming,fused filament fabrication platform,FFF,gantry-code,Prusa MK3S3D printer,printed spherical 3D printed structure,actuation retrofitting | Conference | 2159-6247 |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-7281-6795-4 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 6 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arash Alex Mazhari | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Alan Zhang | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Randall Ticknor | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Sean Shan-Min Swei | 4 | 0 | 1.69 |
| Elizabeth Hyde | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Mircea Teodorescu | 6 | 7 | 6.63 |