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ABSTRACT
This article explores the many uses of additive manufacturing in the UAV sector, both civil and military. It provides a non-exhaustive overview of the possibilities offered by these disruptive technologies and presents a multitude of applications for metal, plastic or composite 3D printing to manufacture parts, or even entire UAVs. The article is illustrated by an interactive map, built on the basis of an exploration of the Web. The aim is to help readers visualise the links between the players, materials, processes and applications associated with additive manufacturing for drones.
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INTRODUCTION
In 2013, Neil Hopkinson, an English academic who has been working on additive manufacturing since the 1990s, said, "I absolutely believe that 3D-printed drones will become the norm in the not-too-distant future." .
You can't go wrong! From the end of the 2010 decade, after several patents had fallen into the public domain (fused deposition molding (FDM) in 2009, selective melting (SLS) in 2014 and selective sintering (SLM) in 2017), projects involving 3D printing and drones continued to multiply.
Additive manufacturing has been used for some fifteen years now to produce parts for UAVs, and even entire UAVs. The potential of additive manufacturing needs no further demonstration, as this disruptive technology is already having a lasting impact on a number of sectors, including the drone industry, and more broadly on the aeronautics and even space industries, particularly in terms of lightening aircraft
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KEYWORDS
3D printing | UAV | fused deposition modeling | selective laser sintering | eVTOL
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