工程公司Scheureer Swiss GmbH.使用其3D打印专业知识来帮助一群苏黎世埃德里希学生们发展他们的“Rowesys“自动机器人除草系统。
与苏黎世队一起使用Scheureer Swiss提供并制作了几种印花碳钢组件，使机器人的结构能够增强其性能。正在进入最终测试的紧凑杂草杀戮机器人被设计为可持续替代农业农业环境损坏除草剂的可持续替代品。
“我们在咨询能力中支持了我们的专业技术领域的Rowesys团队。在运作上，我们将多年的专业知识纳入了高效的高效复合部件，用于汽车运动，进入农业机器人的碳钢组件的开发和3D印刷，“Scheure瑞士GmbH首席执行官Dominik Scheurer说。
Additive solutions to environmental problems
虽然除草剂提供了一个时间和经济高效的杂草杀戮解决机构，但它们的使用越来越多地与环境损害有关。例如，在瑞士，在含有农业的几乎所有地区，测量都显示出污染的地面水。目前唯一可行的常规农业的可行替代方法，正在选择有机。这种农业技术更具可持续性，但需要额外的工作，并且通常可以推动消费者价格，同时降低客户需求。因此，苏黎世队的眼中所需要的是一种新的除草剂和经济可行的解决方案。
进入机器人杂草杀手。Rowesys自主除草机器人使用视觉传感器来识别和破坏杂草，而无需过度使用除草剂。由十名高积极的学生，八位专家教练及其赞助商Scheurer Swiss创作，这款机器人代表了一个用户友好而有效的杂草杀戮解决方案。此外，该项目展示了如何利用数字化和3D打印技术最小化环境损坏。
“What motivated me about this project, apart from the relevance of what I learned and the chance to gain practical experience in teamwork, was the sustainability of herbicide-free sugar beet cultivation,” said Nico Burger, Software & Controls Team Rowesys. “Because up to now, there has been no investment in more sustainable production in this area of agriculture.”
Project Rowesys: 3D printing the weed killer
As a gold sponsor of the research group, Scheurer Swiss offered its engineering expertise to the team, and 3D printed carbon-reinforced components for the robot on their behalf. 3D printing these parts not only provided cost efficiency and design flexibility benefits, but enabled the group to meet the robot’s reliability, autonomy and safety requirements as well.
For example, the agricultural robot features 3D printed wafer-thin carbon-reinforced plastic slats that are backed by LEDs, indicating the robot’s status at all times, and allowing the team to work safely around it. The autonomous weed killer also uses a 3D printed lattice-like part, which serves as an interface between the aluminium chassis and the robot’s electronics. Using AM, the unusual shape of the connector can be produced in such a way that not a single gram of superfluous material is used.
这不仅会使机器人轻量维护并增加其可持续性凭证，而且在使用过程中，该组件保持超稳定，使其能够在使用过程中保持连接。“只有碳加固3D打印技术甚至可以生产这种精确的拟合，丝细胞和稳定的组分，”施氏培育家添加。
在最终产品中，农业机器人能够通过土壤拉动小犁，通过将根部拉到表面来破坏植物行之间的杂草。此外，机器人能够自动驱动，在其内置摄像机的帮助下检测现场的末尾，然后切换到下一个直接行。在涉及甜菜养殖的初始测试之后，发现机器人能够重复该过程，同时大大减少了使用有害除草剂造成的污染量。
“The focus project Rowesys is an example of how digitisation and the use of innovative materials can produce efficient and intelligent technical achievements,” concluded Scheurer. “We congratulate the Rowesys team on their success and are pleased that we were able to support the team with our expertise in an advisory and operational capacity right up to the practical test.”
Eth苏黎世的添加剂创新
仅在去年，研究人员来自Eth苏黎世使用3D印刷来提高各种最终用品的品质。例如，在2020年6月，苏黎世研究团队开发了一个新型通用纳米载波墨水平台，这促进了制剂的生物官能油墨。材料的独特定制生物功能性，包括组织工程和药物递送，以及先进的生物材料。
2019年12月，同时，瑞士为基础的科学家成功3D印刷玻璃对象using a specialized resin and Digital Light Processing (DLP). The method proved capable of creating complex glass parts, with high spatial resolutions and multi-oxide chemical compositions.
同样，在2019年8月，一群不同的苏黎世研究人员开发了一种基于添加的制造制造的程序雷电竞充值magnesium scaffolds with regular porosity。Using a 3D printed salt template, the team’s method managed to create magnesium structures with ordered pores while retaining their mechanical stability.
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Featured image shows the Zurich team’s automated robotic weed removal system in action. Image via Rowesys.
