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Design Of A Scara Based Mobile 3d Printing Platform, Zachary Hyden
Design Of A Scara Based Mobile 3d Printing Platform, Zachary Hyden
Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Currently 3D printers rely heavily on people to run them, there is no automatic way to start a new print after one has finished. On top of this 3D printers are limited in the area they can print on. Even though the additive manufacturing market is rapidly growing and is increasingly being used in product manufacturing there has yet to be a solution to this problem. This research proposes using mobile 3D printing robots to solve both of these issues. The proposed prototype utilizes a Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm (SCARA) based robot capable of cooperatively manufacturing parts. This allows …