18th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering

Egon Prioglio from Dipartimento di Meccanica - Politecnico di Milano presented at the 18th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, held from July 10-12. The presentation, authored by him, Giovanni Zanderigo, and Bianca Maria Colosimo, detailed advancements in computer vision techniques for monitoring the extrusion-based bioprinting process using in-situ thermal imaging with a transparent biomaterial.

The team demonstrated how image analysis can reconstruct printed geometry in real-time and evaluate filament width errors along the printing path. Additionally, they introduced a deep learning architecture for next-frame prediction, which uses thermal image sequences to detect printing anomalies through prediction errors.

This research contributes to developing solutions that enhance replicability and reproducibility in bioprinting in a non-destructive and cost-effective manner, facilitating industry adoption.