MAAL · Manufacturing and Aerospace Automation Lab

MAAL - Manufacturing and Aerospace Automation Lab製造與航空航天自動化實驗室

We model, control, and build intelligent manufacturing systems, robotic platforms, and flexible aircraft.

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Three connected research directions

Additive & composite manufacturing

Process modeling, in-situ monitoring, control, and optimized material paths for high-performance parts.

Flexible aircraft & VTOL

Reduced-order models, load alleviation, flight control, and control allocation for emerging aircraft.

Robotic modeling & control

Flexible robot dynamics, trajectory generation, vibration compensation, and robotic manufacturing.

Selected projects

Research organized around real engineering problems, experimental platforms, and reusable outputs.

Robotics

Flexible industrial robot dynamics and control

Low-dimensional modeling and vibration-aware trajectory generation for industrial robots with joint and link flexibility.

Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing process monitoring and control

Unified process and feed-drive models with thermal, vibration, position, and extrusion sensing.

Manufacturing

Continuous-fiber additive manufacturing

Modeling, path optimization, and fabrication of free-form continuous-fiber-reinforced parts.

Aerospace

Flexible aircraft reduced-order modeling and load alleviation

Efficient aeroelastic models for evaluating and controlling lightweight flexible aircraft.

Aerospace

VTOL data-driven modeling and control allocation

Physics-informed, flight-data-driven models for transition flight, vectoring, and control allocation.

Recent publications

Journal papers, conference contributions, and technical articles.

Y. Yang, Y. Zhou, M. Duan*, 2025, "Contact-force-based closed-loop control of multi-axis additive manufacturing With continuous-fiber-reinforced polymer," ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, Greenville.

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S. Chen, S. Liu, S. He, M. Duan*, 2025, "Optimal-transport-based geometry modeling for material extrusion additive manufacturing," Journal of Manufacturing Process, 154, pp. 236-248.

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Z. Xu, S. He, K. Lou, S. Chen, M. Duan*, 2025, "Additive manufacturing with continuous fiber: a comparison between prepreg and in-situ impregnated fiber on printing accuracy, bonding, and mechanical performance," ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, Greenville.

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Y. Yang, Z. Xu, M. Duan*, 2025, "Evolving stress-guided continuous fiber path optimization for multi-axis additive manufacturing of composite shells," Additive Manufacturing, 113, pp. 105012.

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W. Zhang, Y. Wang, Y. Chen, X. Deng, Y. Wang, M. Duan, P. Hu, K. Tang*, 2025, "DED bead geometry and profile prediction with multimodal spatio-temporal neural networks," Additive Manufacturing, pp. 104952.

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S. Liu, S. Wang, M. Duan*, 2025, "Optimal Trajectory Generation and Feedback Tension Control of a Robotic Space Tether Launching System," International Conference on Control Science and Systems Engineering (ICCSSE), Beijing.

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