Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in EC1 1237 and online.
Ludwig Wilhelm Wall, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Oliver Schneider
Printing support towers is considered the leading source of waste in FDM 3D printing. Substiports is a software system that allows substituting printed supports with manual replacements that work with off-the-shelf commodity 3D printers. The system is integrated directly into an open source slicer that can be run in a web browser, and uses a particle swarm optimisation to find the best combinations of replacements
In this seminar, we show how to optimise not just for effectiveness, but with user effort in mind, and how to prune the search space to run an effective PSO in a web browser.
To attend this PhD seminar in person, please go to EC1 1237. You can also attend virtually using Zoom.