DocumentCode :
3564655
Title :
Monitoring Concepts for a 3D Printer Applied to Build a Human Outpost on the Moon
Author :
Colla, Valentina ; Dini, Enrico ; Cesaretti, Giovanni ; De Kestelier, Xavier ; Pambaguian, Laurent
Author_Institution :
Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna Pisa, TeCIP Inst., Pisa, Italy
fYear :
2014
Firstpage :
206
Lastpage :
210
Abstract :
The paper presents the concept of a monitoring system for a 3D printer capable of printing big artifact, which has been successfully evaluated for a possible application for building components of a human outpost on the Moon surface by using the local sand. The monitoring system is designed to allow autonomous detection of eventual faults or decrease of printing performance, in order to early operate suitable countermeasures, by taking into account that the human supervision on the printing operations will be absent or very poor. The monitoring systems exploits an industrial CCD camera positioned above the printing area and directed perpendicular to the layer plane, which collects images of the printing process and computes some performance index on the basis of the comparison to the ideal shape of the area to be printed. Such system has been tested on some preliminary printing experiments and the concepts for further exploitation of the extracted information has been developed.
Keywords :
CCD image sensors; Moon; astronomy computing; printers; solid modelling; three-dimensional printing; 3D printer; Moon surface; big artifact printing; charged-coupled device camera; human outpost; industrial CCD camera; monitoring system concept; printing operation; printing process; Artificial intelligence; Indexes; Monitoring; Moon; Printers; Printing; Three-dimensional displays; 3D printing; feature extraction; image processing; monitoring;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSim), 2014 UKSim-AMSS 16th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4923-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/UKSim.2014.50
Filename :
7046064
Link To Document :
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