Online cooperative printing by mobile robots

• Main Authors: Alhijaily, Abdullah, Kilic, Zekai Murat, Bartolo, Paulo
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Online Path Planning; Cooperative Printing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173197
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cooperative printing, where multiple printheads concurrently print a part, significantly improves printing speed. However, current literature only discussed offline path planning, in which the toolpaths are generated before the printing process starts. Offline path planning is unreliable and leads t...