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| Title: | An ACO-based tool-path optimizer for 3D printing applications | Authors: | Fok, KY Cheng, CT Ganganath, N Iu, HHC Tse, CK |
Issue Date: | Apr-2019 | Source: | IEEE transactions on industrial informatics, Apr. 2019, v. 15, no. 4, p. 2277-2287 | Abstract: | Layered additive manufacturing, also known as three-dimensional (3-D) printing, has revolutionized transitional manufacturing processes. Fabrication of 3-D models with complex structures is now feasible with 3-D printing technologies. By performing careful tool-path optimization, the printing process can be speeded up, while the visual quality of printed objects can be improved simultaneously. The optimization process can be perceived as an undirected rural postman problem (URPP) with multiple constraints. In this paper, a tool-path optimizer is proposed, which further optimizes solutions generated from a slicer software to alleviate visual artifacts in 3-D printing and shortens print time. The proposed optimizer is based on a modified ant colony optimization (ACO), which exploits unique properties in 3-D printing. Experiment results verify that the proposed optimizer can deliver significant improvements in computational time, print time, and visual quality of printed objects over optimizers based on conventional URPP and ACO solvers. | Keywords: | Ant colony optimization (ACO) Arc-routing Layered additive manufacturing Rural postman problem Tool-path optimization |
Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Journal: | IEEE transactions on industrial informatics | ISSN: | 1551-3203 | EISSN: | 1941-0050 | DOI: | 10.1109/TII.2018.2889740 | Rights: | © 2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. Personal use is permitted, but republication/redistribution requires IEEE permission.See http://www.ieee.org/publicationsstandards/publications/rights/index.html for more information. The following publication Fok, K. Y., Cheng, C. T., Ganganath, N., Iu, H. H. C., & Chi, K. T. (2019). An ACO-Based Tool-Path Optimizer for 3-D Printing Applications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(4), 2277-2287 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TII.2018.2889740 |
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