Gajdoš Ivan, Sobaszek Łukasz, Štefčák Pavol, Varga Jozef, Slota Ján
Department of Technology, Materials and CAx, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Košice, 04001 Košice, Slovakia.
Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and Information Technology, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, Poland.
Polymers (Basel). 2025 Jul 17;17(14):1965. doi: 10.3390/polym17141965.
Additive manufacturing is one of the most common technologies used in prototyping and manufacturing usable parts. Currently, industrial robots are also increasingly being used to carry out this process. This is due to a robot's capability to fabricate components with structural configurations that are unattainable using conventional 3D printers. The number of degrees of freedom of the robot, combined with its working range and precision, allows the construction of parts with greater dimensions and better strength in comparison to conventional 3D printing. However, the implementation of a robot into the 3D printing process requires the development of novel solutions to streamline and facilitate the prototyping and manufacturing processes. This work focuses on the need to develop new slicing methods for robotic additive manufacturing. A solution for alternative control code generation without external slicer utilization is presented. The implementation of the proposed method enables a reduction of over 80% in the time required to generate new G-code, significantly outperforming traditional approaches. The paper presents a novel approach to the slicing process in robotic additive manufacturing that is adopted for the fused granular fabrication process using thermoplastic polymers.
增材制造是用于原型制作和制造可用零件的最常见技术之一。目前，工业机器人也越来越多地用于执行此过程。这是因为机器人能够制造出使用传统3D打印机无法实现的具有结构配置的部件。机器人的自由度数量，结合其工作范围和精度，与传统3D打印相比，能够制造出尺寸更大、强度更高的零件。然而，将机器人应用于3D打印过程需要开发新颖的解决方案，以简化和促进原型制作和制造过程。这项工作重点在于开发用于机器人增材制造的新切片方法。提出了一种无需使用外部切片机即可生成替代控制代码的解决方案。所提出方法的实施能够将生成新G代码所需的时间减少80%以上，显著优于传统方法。本文提出了一种用于机器人增材制造切片过程的新颖方法，该方法适用于使用热塑性聚合物的熔融粒料制造工艺。
