Next-generation Manufacturing Systems

Research within this theme at the Centre for Intelligent Transport covers a variety of innovative research programmes including:

• Development of next generation of electrojet printing systems for additive manufacturing complex materials with high resolution and speed,
• Development of multi-scale physics-based computational approach for laser-based powder-bed fusion process to understand solid-liquid-vapour transition during AM.
• Development and analysis of new polymers, metals and alloys including Ni-based superalloys, Ti-alloys, shape memory alloys and refractory metals. Techniques include in-situ monitoring, X-ray synchrotron, and advanced materials characterisation,
• Development of scalable multi-robot three-dimensional (3D) printing and path-planning framework that enables robot tasks and population size to be adapted to variations in print geometry throughout a building mission.