# 45: Autonomous Vehicle Meets 3D Printer: Cost-effective Monitoring of Additive Manufacturing using Robots
Project ID:
45
Team Members:
Travis Major, John Smith, Cindy Cruz
Faculty Advisor(s):
Chen Kan
Department:
Industrial, Manufacturing & Systems Engineering
Project Type:
REU
Title:
Autonomous Vehicle Meets 3D Printer: Cost-effective Monitoring of Additive Manufacturing using Robots
Abstract:
This project aims to develop a novel robotic monitoring system for additive manufacturing (AM). As opposed to fixed-location monitoring, our system leverages a robotic sensing platform – an autonomous vehicle with sensors, and actively decides when and where to collect quality-pertinent data from the AM process. This will significantly reduce the equipment cost and lift the burden in data transmission, analysis, and storage. For this project, the team will explore hardware design – how to build the robotic sensing platform – and software development – how to control the platform for cost-effective monitoring of the AM process.