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Packing Irregular-Shaped Objects for 3D Printing

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KI 2015: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (KI 2015)

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This paper considers solving a problem in combinatorial search: the automated arrangement of irregular-shaped objects for industrial 3D printing. The input is a set of triangulated models; the output is a set of location and orientation vectors for the objects. The proposed algorithm consists of three stages: (1) translation of the models into an octree; (2) design of an efficient test for pairwise intersection based on sphere trees; and (3) computation of an optimized placement of the objects using simulated annealing. We compare several sphere-tree construction methods and annealing parameter settings to derive valid packings.

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    Stefan Edelkamp & Paul Wichern

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  1. Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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  3. Free University Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

    Rafael Peñaloza

  4. Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Sebastian Rudolph

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Edelkamp, S., Wichern, P. (2015). Packing Irregular-Shaped Objects for 3D Printing. In: Hölldobler, S., , Peñaloza, R., Rudolph, S. (eds) KI 2015: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9324. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24489-1_4

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