Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) is a metal 3D printing technology that deposits molten metal wire on a substrate to form desired geometries. Articulated robot arms are commonly used in WAAM to produce complex g...
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Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) is a metal 3D printing technology that deposits molten metal wire on a substrate to form desired geometries. Articulated robot arms are commonly used in WAAM to produce complex geometric shapes. However, they mostly rely on proprietary robot and weld control software that limits process tuning and customization, incorporation of third-party sensors, implementation on robots and weld controllers from multiple vendors, and customizable user programming. This paper presents a general open-source software architecture for WAAM that addresses these limitations. The foundation of this architecture is Robot Raconteur, an open-source control and communication framework that serves as the middleware for integrating robots and sensors from different vendors. Based on this architecture, we developed an end-to-end robotic WAAM implementation that takes a CAD file to a printed WAAM part and evaluates the accuracy of the result. The major components in the architecture include part slicing, robot motion planning, part metrology, in-process sensing, and process tuning. The current implementation is based on Motoman robots and Fronius weld controller, but the approach is adaptable to other industrial robots and weld controllers. The capability of the WAAM system is demonstrated through the printing of parts with various geometries and acquisition of in-process sensor data for real-time motion adjustment.
High-density housing can be interpreted as collections of individual units, which inevitably results in the dilemma between the global standardization designed by architects and local customization implemented by user...
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High-density housing can be interpreted as collections of individual units, which inevitably results in the dilemma between the global standardization designed by architects and local customization implemented by users. However, it is impossible to reflect the users' various needs in the conceptual design stage for high-density housing because of the economic, industrial and time constrains. In response to this challenge, this research paper outlines a different high-density housing design approach that can adopt users' individual customization in the conceptual design stage during the housing design practice. Hence, the design process would be an open-ended evolutionary and transparent process rather than deterministic executions as we have now in most high-density cities, such as Hong Kong. In order to overcome the deficiency in addressing future uncertainties of different users and address the issues of one-off developments without iterating users' feedback in the housing practice, this essay proposes IOSDA (integrated opensource design for architecture) for the design practice of high-density housing, through collective data and parametric connectivity between users and architects. IOSDA reflects a different design attitude towards the future, i.e., to shift from architects' heroic prediction of the future to collective engagement of the present with more robust capacities for new possibilities.
With the rapid expansion of the space industry, there has been a strong push to develop simple, reusable, and easy to deploy satellite system architecture solutions. The space industry may have assumed that the comple...
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(纸本)9781665485340
With the rapid expansion of the space industry, there has been a strong push to develop simple, reusable, and easy to deploy satellite system architecture solutions. The space industry may have assumed that the complexity of their systems of systems would make the vulnerability discovery process too difficult for attackers. However, focused research into the design of modern Software-Bus (SB) dependent satellite systems has the ability to reveal numerous vulnerabilities in deployed space system architectures. In particular, our in-depth analysis of NASA's opensource core Flight System (cFS) resulted not only in the discovery of various novel vulnerabilities, but also the implementation of several straight-forward, practical exploits. Due to the lack of authentication required to execute commands via the SB as well as the inability to recover from an attack in a robust manner, cFS is vulnerable to a number of attacks through the SB entry point. This paper presents four exploit demonstrations on the unsecured cFS bus architecture, and then provides recommendations on how to secure against these attacks and make a modern satellite system architecture more robust.
Occupancy detection is essential in smart buildings from energy management and comfort management perspectives. Information on the occupancy also plays an important role in the successful execution of the rescue plan ...
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Occupancy detection plays an important role in smart buildings from energy-comfort management as well as emergency management perspectives. Occupancy detection system in emergency situations needs to be more proactive...
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(纸本)9781665404785
Occupancy detection plays an important role in smart buildings from energy-comfort management as well as emergency management perspectives. Occupancy detection system in emergency situations needs to be more proactive, real-time with low latency and high accuracy as compared to that required for energy-comfort management. Such occupancy detection information can help first responders to plan the rescue operations better. In this paper, an open source architecture of a Wi-Fi localization-based occupancy detection system prototype for emergency management in smart buildings is presented. Design, implementation and testing procedures for this system are detailed. A simulator build for performance testing has been described. The results of the testing are discussed from its realtime performance and accuracy perspective.
Patents are the strongest form of intellectual property rights available internationally, so far unbeaten by opensource as a body of innovation and know-how. Mark Garcia, senior lecturer in the Department of Architec...
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