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FR4_Interactive Fabrication_Nadine Couture

Nadine Couture

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n.couture@estia.fr

ESTIA-Research : https://www.estia.fr/recherche

Group description

Within the ESTIA-Research lab, our group aims use Augmented Reality tools to supervise

additive manufacturing operations. These operations are particularly lengthy, and the

efficiency is linked to the supervision of the monitored parameters. A recent thesis

demonstrated the interest of using sonification and/or vibrotactile tools, as ways to

augment reality, to ensure such monitoring.

The aim of this research line is to combine the power of the manufacturing robot with the

know-how of the operator. Indeed, process automation within the industry of the future

must implement human system interactions at all levels of production, from design to the

finished object. The principle is to make the most of technologies by combining them with

the user's analysis and decision-making capabilities by enriching the interactions. The

challenge concerns the human system interfaces and its capabilities to receive information

during the process and translate them in a way that that can be interpreted easily by the

user within the human robot interaction loop.

The aim is to follow the principle of “interactive fabrication” introduce in 2011 by Willis,

Gross et al, as new interfaces for digital fabrication.

This research group is part of the "DREAM: Develop Responsive Emergent and Additive

Manufacturing process" Chair was created by agreement in June 2020 between ESTIA and

SIGMA Clermont. The DREAM Chair was created to support the industrial sector's transition

to new manufacturing processes. The pooling of their research resources is geared towards

defining methods for increasing the performance of new manufacturing processes, such as

Direct Energy Deposition (DED) additive processes. The point of view adopted is to approach

this problem globally by drawing on all the scientific resources of the two institutions. Thus,

the chair addresses, in particular, the problems of simulation, monitoring and supervision of

additive manufacturing processes with the aim of making them efficient. The collaboration

of some fifteen teacher-researchers with complementary skills is central to this partnership.

Linking mechanical engineering, industrial engineering and management sciences, their

work will benefit from the pooling of the two schools' experimental platforms, equipped

with industrial manufacturing facilities. The work in progress has led to partnerships with

major industrial players such as Dassault Aviation, Addup, MBDA and Kuka Aerospace and to

the launch of the ANR Indus-Addi project. No less than 12 theses are in progress or have

been defended on this theme.

 

Keywords

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Interactive fabrication
  • Process Optimization
  • Augmented Reality
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Team Description

  • Couture Nadine (Principal Investigator)

    ORCID: 0000-0001-7959-5227

  • Duc Emmanuel (Co-Principal Investigator)

    ORCID: 0000-0002-5893-0396

  • Bottecchia Sébastien (Research staff)

  • Michaud Pierre (Research staff)

    ORCID: 0000-0002-4533-1415

  • Bottechia Sébastien (Research staff)

  • Michaud Pierre (Research staff)

    ORCID: 0000-0002-4533-1415

Projects

  • Indus Addi

    Pl: Duc Emmanuel

    Funding Agency*: National

    Ongoing: yes

  • ADDITOOL

    Pl: Michaud Pierre

    Funding Agency*: Regional

    Ongoing: yes

  • SOFTDREAM

    Pl: Michaud Pierre

    Funding Agency*: European

    Ongoing: yes

  • Eco-Betonnière

    Pl: Couture Nadine

    Funding Agency*: Regional

    Ongoing: yes

* INT - International EU - European NAT - National RE - Regional

Publications

  • Corentin Douellou, Xavier Balandraud, Emmanuel Duc, Benoit Verquin, Fabien Lefebvre, Frédéric Sar, = Rapid characterization of the fatigue limit of additive- manufactured maraging steels using infrared measurements, Additive Manufacturing, 2020
    10.1016/j.addma.2020.101310

  • Sébastien Ibarboure, = Vibrotactile Tactilisation of Information for a More Flexible Use of Additive Manufacturing Robot Cell., PhD Thesis, 2021
    http://theses.fr/s203552

  • Taddese, G., Durieux, S., Duc, E, = Sustainability performance indicators for additive manufacturing: A literature review based on product life cycle studies, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2020
    10.1007/s00170-020-05249-2

  • Douellou C., Balandraud X., Duc E., = Fatigue characterization by heat source reconstruction under continuously varying stress amplitude, International Journal of Fatigue, 2022
    10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2022.106782

  • Poret M., Ibarboure S., Robine M., Duc E., Desainte- Catherine M.,, = Sonification for 3D Printing Process Monitoring, International Computer Music Conference, 2020

  • Maxime Poret, Sébastien Ibarboure, Catherine Semal, Myriam Desainte-Catherine, Nadine Couture, = PERIPHERAL AUDITORY DISPLAY FOR 3D-PRINTING PROCESS MONITORING, Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2021
    10.5281/zenodo.5113511

Research Lines

DIGITAL AND CONNECTED FACTORY

Augmented reality for the supervision of additive manufacturing

In “interactive fabrication the interfaces help the operator to manufacture what he, she imagines more effectively, by giving him, her access to new tools to design more freely and closer to the manufacturing process.

The expected work will define the types of information to be communicated (follow-up, safety, etc.) and the interaction tools (helmet, watch, bracelet, etc.) going beyond the current framework of rapid prototyping to implement it in manufacturing. For short, we produce interfaces for direct interaction during the execution of an industrial additive manufacturing process to improve the fabrication by allowing

 

 

the operator to monitor the apparition of manufacturing issues and react in real time. Interactive Fabrication aims to blend manufacturing and design by fitting perfectly into Milgram's augmented reality continuum by allowing either interaction with a real object to modify a digital model, or by modifying the digital model to modify the manufacturing. Zoran, A. and Paradiso, J. in CHI’2014, indicate that Interactive Fabrication can then be seen as a form of hybrid craft allowing interactive, rapid and intuitive manufacturing. By bringing the design and manufacturing processes together, Interactive Fabrication allows the design process to be integrated directly into the manufacturing scene. Finally, Interactive Fabrication can be seen as the continuum between industrialization and craft. A point not yet addressed is the way in which the manufacturing information is provided to the user by the system. This is what we are exploring in augmenting (in the sense of augmented reality) the Manufacturing Interactive environment with various sensory modalities

(visual, audio, tactile).

SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING

Additive manufacturing for eco-building

The evolution and maturity of additive manufacturing processes has enabled the construction sector to be invested. However, many questions remain unanswered: how to modify the formulation to take into account the variability of raw materials (variable water content of aggregates, variable composition of excavated soil, sediments, etc.) and also the variability of the implementation conditions (temperature, humidity, wind speed)? How to define the formulation that meets the usual expectations of mechanical resistance? What filling strategy? What rheology and solidification are compatible with additive manufacturing? Finally, how can the process be controlled so that it meets the above quality criteria? We tackle issues of the adaptation of two construction

materials for additive building: the low clinker concrete and the raw earth. We are interested by the development of real-time monitoring of fresh material properties with appropriate instrumentation and the improvement of human-system interaction

Cross-border Collaboration (if any)

In the field of Additive Manufacturing, there is a stable cooperation with the University of Basque Country UPV / EHU. Since 2015, several actions have been deployed in the context of 2 transborder projects: Transfron 3D - already finished - and Additool - currently ongoing. Main indicators of this activity are one thesis with a European mention and the development of a transborder course for students from both universities.