Abstract Additive Manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, processes depend on a user-defined
set of optimized process parameters to create a component. Monitoring and control of AM …

Real-time monitoring of the additive manufacturing process offers the promise of
guaranteeing product quality and increasing the efficiency of the printing process. This …

Material extrusion is the most widespread additive manufacturing method but its application
in end-use products is limited by vulnerability to errors. Humans can detect errors but cannot …

Real-time defect detection and closed-loop adjustment of additive manufacturing (AM) are
essential to ensure the quality of as-fabricated products, especially for carbon fiber …

Abstract Nowadays, Internet-of-Things (IoT), big data, and cloud computing technologies
allow increasing the throughput and quality of manufacturing systems, bringing to the rise of …

Qualitative uncertainties are a key challenge for the further industrialization of additive
manufacturing. To solve this challenge, methods for measuring the process states and …

Purpose In recent years, additive manufacturing (AM) technology has been acknowledged
as an efficient method for producing geometrical complex objects with a wide range of …

Additive manufacturing (AM) can build up complex parts in a layer-by-layer manner, which is
a kind of novel and flexible production technology. The special manufacturing capability of …

On-machine, optical imaging of the layer is bound to play an important role in the
development of future in-process monitoring solutions for fused filament fabrication. In …

The paper describes an open source computer vision-based hardware structure and
software algorithm, which analyzes layer-wise 3-D printing processes, tracks printing errors …