MULTI-DRONE BASED THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING

Patent №

US 10,696,035

Granted

2020-06-30

Filed 2019

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16374038

Approaches presented herein enable forming a 3D object with a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also known as “drones”, configured to carry and deposit 3D printing material, and to fly to a depositing location (e.g., fly, hover, or land) to print a 3D object. Specifically, at a central controller, a set of specifications for a 3D object to be printed are obtained. The central controller directs each of a plurality of UAVs controlled by the central controller to fly to a depositing location where a layer of 3D printer material is to be deposited, the location determined from the set of specifications. In response to a UAV of the plurality reaching the depositing location, the central controller further directs the UAV of the plurality to apply the layer of 3D printer material to the depositing location.

PlanningAI hardwareB29C 64/112B29C 64/106B29C 64/20B29C 64/393B33Y 10/00B33Y 30/00G05D 1/104B29L 2009/00

AI classification

AI hardware0.86
Planning0.54
Knowledge representation0.17
Vision0.09
Evolutionary computation0.05
Natural language0.02
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 487810716

Assignors

BOSTICK, JAMES E., GANCI, JOHN M., JR., KEEN, MARTIN G., RAKSHIT, SARBAJIT K.

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