R3 DIGITAL SCIENCES, INC. — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: N20A-T018
R3 DIGITAL SCIENCES, INC. — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $239,907
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- N20A-T018
- Solicitation
- A
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2020-06-08 → 2021-10-05
Description
The Navy desires an Intelligent Additive Manufacturing (IAM) system for metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) that can incorporate AI to provide real-time adaptive monitoring and control of the LPBF process and produce defect-free parts while maintaining or reducing part build times. To provide this, our team will develop Open-IAM. The concept will consist of a controllable open architecture LPBF AM system, melt-pool temperature sensors, auxiliary process sensors, and an unsupervised learning algorithm to control the LPBF process.