Online Measurement for Parameter Discovery in Fused Filament Fabrication
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Author(s)
Read, Jake Robert
Seppala, Jonathan E.
Tourlomousis, Filippos
Warren, James A.
Bakker, Nicole
Gershenfeld, Neil
Date Issued
April 3, 2024
Journal
Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation
Read, J.R., Seppala, J.E., Tourlomousis, F. et al. Online Measurement for Parameter Discovery in Fused Filament Fabrication. Integr Mater Manuf Innov (2024).
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Final published version
Abstract
To describe a new method for the automatic generation of process parameters for fused filament fabrication (FFF) across varying machines and materials. We use an instrumented extruder to fit a function that maps nozzle pressures across varying flow rates and temperatures for a given machine and material configuration. We then develop a method to extract real parameters for flow rate and temperature using relative pressures and temperature offsets. Our method allows us to successfully find process parameters, using one set of input parameters, across all of the machine and material configurations that we tested, even in materials that we had never printed before. Rather than using direct parameters in FFF printing, which is time-consuming to tune and modify, it is possible to deploy machine-generated data that captures the fundamental phenomenology of FFF to automatically select parameters.
Subjects
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
General Materials Science
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Bits and Atoms
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40192-024-00350-w
