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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2020
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aleksandar B. Feldman, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Morad Behandish, Foster City, CA (US);
Johan de Kleer, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ion Matei, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Saigopal Nelaturi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a system for determining a hybrid-manufacturing plan for manufacturing an object. During operation, the system can obtain a set of hybrid-manufacturing constraints for manufacturing the object. The set of hybrid-manufacturing constraints can include a set of primitives, a set of atoms, and an atom end-state vector. An atom can correspond to a unit of spatial volume of the object. A primitive can represent an additive or a subtractive manufacturing process corresponding to one or more atoms of the object. Next, the system can determine a plurality of feasible hybrid-manufacturing plans based on the set of hybrid-manufacturing constraints. Each feasible hybrid-manufacturing plan can represent an ordering of the set of primitives that satisfies the atom end-state vector. The system can then determine costs for manufacturing the object using the plurality feasible hybrid-manufacturing plans. The system can determine, based on the costs, an optimized hybrid-manufacturing plan for manufacturing the object.