Wenchao Zhou Data-verified

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Last publication 2024 Last refreshed 2026-05-22

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13 h-index 37 pubs 501 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Wenchao Zhou's research focuses on additive manufacturing, particularly in the context of robotics and cooperative systems. His work includes architecting cooperative 3D printing systems, developing methods for collision-free multi-robot additive manufacturing, and exploring robot tape manipulation for 3D printing applications. He has also investigated the textural and color characteristics of 3D printed food products, specifically gluten-free pizza dough and crust.

His research extends to the reliability and optimization of mechanical systems. This includes experimental and numerical evaluations for drum dynamic reliability under complex working conditions and random vibration fatigue analysis and optimization for vehicle components like wheel speed sensor brackets.

Zhou is a Principal Investigator on an NSF I-Corps grant for "Microheater Array Powder Sintering Technology for Additive Manufacturing," totaling $50,000. He has published 37 papers, with an h-index of 13 and 493 citations. He collaborates with several faculty members at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Rencheng Wu, Wan Shou, Nahid Tushar, and Han-Seok Seo.

Metrics

  • h-index: 13
  • Publications: 37
  • Citations: 501

Selected Publications

  • Automatic Calibration of Robotic 3D Printer Swarms for Cooperative 3D Printing (2026)
  • Heterogeneous swarm manufacturing: a framework and proof-of-concept study (2026)
  • Desktop-scale robot tape manipulation for additive manufacturing (2024)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Job Placement for Cooperative 3D Printing (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Textural characteristics and color analyses of 3D printed gluten-free pizza dough and crust (2022)
    15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Toward Swarm Manufacturing: Architecting a Cooperative 3D Printing System (2022)
    29 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Enabling Multi-Robot Cooperative Additive Manufacturing: Centralized vs. Decentralized Approaches (2021)

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Federal Grants 1 $50,000 total

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