Description:

This is an Industry 4.0 project.

Additive manufacturing is a process that creates physical parts directly from 3D CAD files. The 3D CAD data may come from a CAD tool, e.g. Creo, or a 3D scanning/digitising process (using a 3D scanner, or other photographic methods).This project uses an industrial robot, i.e. Kuka for additive fabrication process, i.e. 3D printing. A Kuka robot at the Manufacturing Systems Laboratory will be used as the principal equipment, on which a material applicator is added for fabrication purposes. The project takes three forms of data, a CAD file, a scanned data file or photographic data. The key feature of the system is to be able to create self-supported/free-form (SSFF) structures. This is fundamentally different from a typical 3D printing whereby 3D objects are created by laying down numerous 2D profile/layers. The students are expected to have a good understanding of robotics, image processing, CAD, and geometric modelling.

Type:

Undergraduate

Outcome:

An additive manufacturing system to create self-supported/free-form structures

Prerequisites

None

Specialisations

• Mechanical Engineering
• Mechatronics Engineering

Categories

• Industry 4.0 Smart Manufacturing Systems

Supervisor

• Xun Xu

Team

Allocated (Not available for preferences)

Lab

Lab allocations have not been finalised