...Rob Bogue Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide details of additive manufacturing technologies and their applications in a selection of industrial sectors. Design/methodology/approach Following an introduction, this study first provides details of additive manufacturing technologies...

... ⋅ P cap , P ≥ P cap Additive manufacturing Binocular vision camera Trajectory planning Laser cladding In recent years, laser additive manufacturing and arc additive manufacturing have gained widespread application in automotive, aerospace, energy due...

...Zhaoqin Wang; Yu Shi; Xiaorong Wang Purpose This paper aims to investigate the additive manufacturing (AM) approach of a spatial complex curve feature (SCCF, mapped from two-dimensional nonuniform rational B-splines [2D-NURBS] curve) on a complex surface based on a serial robot using plasma built...

... pack production shops. The welding shop is equipped with 210 ABB robots, performing processes which include gluing, welding and aluminium riveting. Robot Automotive industry Cobot Additive manufacturing Electric vehicles Artificial intelligence Aido Industry is an example of the use...

...Yifeng Li; Xunpeng Qin; Qiang Wu; Zeqi Hu; Tan Shao Purpose Robotic wire and arc additive manufacturing (RWAAM) is becoming more and more popular for its capability of fabricating metallic parts with complicated structure. To unlock the potential of 6-DOF industrial robots and improve the power...

...Filipe Monteiro Ribeiro; J. Norberto Pires; Amin S. Azar Purpose Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have recently turned into a mainstream production method in many industries. The adoption of new manufacturing scenarios led to the necessity of cross-disciplinary developments by combining...

... and physical metallurgy were conducted in an effort to better tune the additive manufacturing process. The results demonstrate how the toolpath planning and deposition strategies can be extracted and studied from a CAD model. Findings The paper fully demonstrates the possibility to use a robotic setup...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Additive manufacturing Robotics Drones Construction industry The global construction industry is worth close to $10tn per annum but suffers from severe worker shortages, little use of new technology and weak or zero productivity growth...

...Gustavo Escobar‐Palafox; Rosemary Gault; Keith Ridgway Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of shaped metal deposition (SMD). SMD is an additive manufacturing process which uses a robotic cell to create fully dense, near‐net shape, metallic parts directly from computer‐aided...