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ArticleCommunications engineering2024

Towards industry-ready additive manufacturing: AI-enabled closed-loop control for 3D melt electrowriting.

Pawel Mieszczanek, Peter Corke, Courosh Mehanian, Paul D Dalton, Dietmar W Hutmacher

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Article in Communications engineering, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Pawel MieszczanekARC Training Centre in Additive Biomanufacturing, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1343-4540
Peter CorkeAustralian Centre for Robotic Vision, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6650-367X
Courosh MehanianGlobal Health Labs, Bellevue, WA, USA.
Paul D DaltonKnight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Dietmar W HutmacherARC Training Centre in Additive Biomanufacturing, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. dietmar.hutmacher@qut.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5678-2134

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melt electrowriting (MEW) is an emerging high-resolution 3D printing technology used in biomedical engineering, regenerative medicine, and soft robotics. Its transition from academia to industry faces challenges such as slow experimentation, low printing throughput, poor reproducibility, and user-dependent operation, largely due to the nonlinear and multiparametric nature of the MEW process. To address these challenges, we applied computer vision and machine learning to monitor and analyze the process in real-time through imaging of the MEW jet between the nozzle-collector gap. To collect data for training we developed an automated data collection methodology that eases the experimental time from days to hours. A feedforward neural network, working in concert with optimization methods and a feedback loop, is used to develop closed-loop control ensuring reproducibility of the printed parts. We demonstrate that machine learning allows streamlining the MEW operation via closed-loop control of the highly nonlinear 3D printing technology.

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PMID39501063
PMCPMC11538274

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