Wenchao Zhou
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Also affiliated: Georgia Institute of Technology (1989–2014); Oregon State University (2016); China Railway Corporation (2019); Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (1997–2020); People's Liberation Army No. 150 Hospital (2024); First Automotive Works (China) (2022); University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2016)
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Wenchao Zhou's research focuses on advancing additive manufacturing technologies, particularly in the area of cooperative and swarm robotics for 3D printing. His work investigates the coordination and control of multiple robotic systems to achieve complex manufacturing tasks, such as creating large-scale objects or enhancing efficiency through parallel processing.
His publications include studies on architecting cooperative 3D printing systems, developing collision-free multi-robot additive manufacturing methods using interlocking shapes, and exploring robot tape manipulation for additive manufacturing. Zhou has also examined the textural characteristics and color analyses of 3D printed food products, specifically gluten-free pizza dough. He received a $50,000 NSF grant through the I-Corps program for research on microheater array powder sintering technology for additive manufacturing.
Zhou collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Rencheng Wu, Nahid Tushar, Wan Shou, and Han-Seok Seo, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 13, 37 total publications, and 508 total citations.
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- h-index: 13
- Publications: 37
- Citations: 516
Selected Publications
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Automatic Calibration of Robotic 3D Printer Swarms for Cooperative 3D Printing (2026)
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Heterogeneous swarm manufacturing: a framework and proof-of-concept study (2026)
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Desktop-scale robot tape manipulation for additive manufacturing (2024)
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Job Placement for Cooperative 3D Printing (2023)
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Textural characteristics and color analyses of 3D printed gluten-free pizza dough and crust (2022)
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LayerLock: Layer-Wise Collision-Free Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing Using Topologically Interlocked Space-Filling Shapes (2022)
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Toward Swarm Manufacturing: Architecting a Cooperative 3D Printing System (2022)
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Enabling Multi-Robot Cooperative Additive Manufacturing: Centralized vs. Decentralized Approaches (2021)
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A Generative Approach for Scheduling Multi-Robot Cooperative Three-Dimensional Printing (2020)
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Microheater array powder sintering: A novel additive manufacturing process (2017)
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Droplet formation at megahertz frequency (2016)
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Lattice Boltzmann simulation of coalescence of multiple droplets on nonideal surfaces (2015)
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Structure–mechanical property relationship in fused deposition modelling (2015)
Federal Grants 1 $50,000 total
I-Corps: Microheater Array Powder Sintering Technology for Additive Manufacturing
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- Toward Swarm Manufacturing: Architecting a Cooperative 3D Printing System
- LayerLock: Layer-Wise Collision-Free Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing Using Topologically Interlocked Space-Filling Shapes
- Job Placement for Cooperative 3D Printing
- Enabling Multi-Robot Cooperative Additive Manufacturing: Centralized vs. Decentralized Approaches
- Automatic Calibration of Robotic 3D Printer Swarms for Cooperative 3D Printing
- Toward Swarm Manufacturing: Architecting a Cooperative 3D Printing System
- LayerLock: Layer-Wise Collision-Free Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing Using Topologically Interlocked Space-Filling Shapes
- Enabling Multi-Robot Cooperative Additive Manufacturing: Centralized vs. Decentralized Approaches
- LayerLock: Layer-Wise Collision-Free Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing Using Topologically Interlocked Space-Filling Shapes
- Desktop-scale robot tape manipulation for additive manufacturing
- Heterogeneous swarm manufacturing: a framework and proof-of-concept study
- Toward Swarm Manufacturing: Architecting a Cooperative 3D Printing System
- Heterogeneous swarm manufacturing: a framework and proof-of-concept study
- LayerLock: Layer-Wise Collision-Free Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing Using Topologically Interlocked Space-Filling Shapes
- Job Placement for Cooperative 3D Printing
- Desktop-scale robot tape manipulation for additive manufacturing
- Heterogeneous swarm manufacturing: a framework and proof-of-concept study
- Desktop-scale robot tape manipulation for additive manufacturing
- Heterogeneous swarm manufacturing: a framework and proof-of-concept study
- Enabling Multi-Robot Cooperative Additive Manufacturing: Centralized vs. Decentralized Approaches
- Toward Swarm Manufacturing: Architecting a Cooperative 3D Printing System
- Toward Swarm Manufacturing: Architecting a Cooperative 3D Printing System
- Toward Swarm Manufacturing: Architecting a Cooperative 3D Printing System
- Toward Swarm Manufacturing: Architecting a Cooperative 3D Printing System
- LayerLock: Layer-Wise Collision-Free Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing Using Topologically Interlocked Space-Filling Shapes
- LayerLock: Layer-Wise Collision-Free Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing Using Topologically Interlocked Space-Filling Shapes
- LayerLock: Layer-Wise Collision-Free Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing Using Topologically Interlocked Space-Filling Shapes
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