Document Type

Patent

Publication Date

5-7-2024

Abstract

The present invention provides a swarm manufacturing platform, based on a swarm 3D printing and assembly (SPA) platform as a model for future smart factories, consisting of thousands of IoT-based mobile robots performing different manufacturing operations with different end effectors (e.g., material deposition, energy deposition, pick and place, removal of materials, screw driving, etc.) and real-time monitoring. The swarm manufacturing platform transforms a 1-D factory into a 2-D factory with manufacturing robots that can move across the 2-D factory floor, work cooperatively with each other on the same production jobs, and re-configure in real-time (i.e., the manufacturing robots can be digitally controlled to move, re-group, calibrate, and work on a new job in real-time).

Department

Electrical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering

Patent Number

US11975486

Application Number

US 20230120878

Application Published

4-20-2023

Application Filed

2-11-2021

Assignee

Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, AR)

Comments

Wenchao Zhou, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Lucas G. Marques, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Zachary Hyden, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

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