US 12,233,604 B1
Augmented manufacturing by embedding autonomous interactions between manufactured components and manufacturing machines
Arash Mazhari, San Jose, CA (US); Rachel Lackritz Ticknor, Cupertino, CA (US); Daniel Walton Cellucci, Ithaca, NY (US); Dean Peter Giovannetti, San Jose, CA (US); and Sean Shan-Min Swei, Gilroy, CA (US)
Assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA, Washington, DC (US)
Filed by United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA, Washington, DC (US)
Filed on Jan. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/149,712.
Int. Cl. B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B29C 64/209 (2017.01); B29C 64/227 (2017.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01)
CPC B29C 64/393 (2017.08) [B29C 64/209 (2017.08); B29C 64/227 (2017.08); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12); B29L 2031/774 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for augmenting functionality of an additive manufacturing machine, the method comprising:
generating a component design having an autonomy characteristic; and
generating code for the implementation of the autonomy characteristic,
wherein the additive manufacturing machine is an off-the-shelf additive manufacturing machine and the autonomy characteristic of the component design imparts a functionality to one or more components manufactured by the additive manufacturing machine, wherein the functionality is based on a physical interaction between at least one of the components and the additive manufacturing machine; and
the functionality comprising actuating the at least one of the components with the additive manufacturing machine, detecting a property of the component as a function of said actuating, and repeating the actuating and detecting over successive iterations to thereby characterize the component, a material of the component, or the additive manufacturing machine.