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The subject of this paper is the mechatronic design of a 4-DOFs hot-wire CNC cutting machine, which is mainly composed by a conventional Cartesian robot with 3-DOFs, plus one that corresponds to the rotation of a fork, in order to orient the hot-wire during the cutting. The proposed cutting machine is actuated through four stepper motors and controlled in such a way to obtain a CAD-CAM system, which is able to generate both planar and skew ruled surfaces, because of the 3-dimensional motion of the hot-wire that is installed on the fork (end-effector). A prototype was built and several experimental tests have allowed the validation of the proposed mechatronic design.
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Figliolini, G., Rea, P., Cocomello, C. (2018). Mechatronic Design and Prototype of a 4-DOFs Hot-Wire CNC Cutting Machine. In: Ferraresi, C., Quaglia, G. (eds) Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2017. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 49. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61276-8_62
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