MANUFACTURING SYSTEM USING TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION DESIGN SOFTWARE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING MECHANISMS AND STRUCTURAL COMPOSITE MATERIALS

摘要

An accretive (additive) manufacturing system comprising an articulable and detachable stage for the component being constructed which permits the movement and exact location of the component's surface in three-dimensional space and optional passing of the control of that location from one set of articulable holder systems to another set of articulable holder systems. Location information about the component's surface being manageable using additional sensor information. The system further comprising at least one means of producing an extrusion of material for forming the component in a controlled way. The means of extrusion being manipulated, in three-dimensional space, by means of an articulated arm.