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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01135 |
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| author | Wu, Yijia Dai, Zilin Liu, Haotian Wang, Lehong Nemitz, Markus P. |
| author_facet | Wu, Yijia Dai, Zilin Liu, Haotian Wang, Lehong Nemitz, Markus P. |
| contents | Pneumatic soft robots are typically fabricated by molding, a manual fabrication process that requires skilled labor. Additive manufacturing has the potential to break this limitation and speed up the fabrication process but struggles with consistently producing high-quality prints. We propose a low-cost approach to improve the print quality of desktop fused deposition modeling by adding a webcam to the printer to monitor the printing process and detect and correct defects such as holes or gaps. We demonstrate that our approach improves the air-tightness of printed pneumatic actuators without fine-tuning printing parameters. Our approach presents a new option for robustly fabricating airtight, soft robotic actuators. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Vision-based FDM Printing for Fabricating Airtight Soft Actuators Wu, Yijia Dai, Zilin Liu, Haotian Wang, Lehong Nemitz, Markus P. Robotics Pneumatic soft robots are typically fabricated by molding, a manual fabrication process that requires skilled labor. Additive manufacturing has the potential to break this limitation and speed up the fabrication process but struggles with consistently producing high-quality prints. We propose a low-cost approach to improve the print quality of desktop fused deposition modeling by adding a webcam to the printer to monitor the printing process and detect and correct defects such as holes or gaps. We demonstrate that our approach improves the air-tightness of printed pneumatic actuators without fine-tuning printing parameters. Our approach presents a new option for robustly fabricating airtight, soft robotic actuators. |
| title | Vision-based FDM Printing for Fabricating Airtight Soft Actuators |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01135 |