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

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

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Conventional robotic wire arc additive manufacturing bushranger awning 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 6-0 igora vibrance wire arc additive systems surrounding a single rotating platform.