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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Manufacturing Technology
  • Computer-Aided Design

Background:

  • Clear aligners are increasingly used for dental corrections, but manufacturing faces challenges like low automation and high costs.
  • A key issue is the coordinate system mismatch between gingival data and dental CAD models.
  • Existing methods lack the precision needed for automated, high-quality clear aligner production.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an automated and cost-effective manufacturing process for clear aligners.
  • To address the coordinate system mismatch problem in dental data registration.
  • To enhance the precision and efficiency of clear aligner machining.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed a Principal Component Analysis-Iterative Closest Point (PCA-ICP) registration algorithm for accurate point cloud alignment.
  • Implemented a coarse matching algorithm using Principal Component Analysis (PCA).
  • Utilized z-level dynamic hierarchical ICP for precise posture determination and generated robot executable paths for ABB industrial robots.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a maximum registration distance error of 0.03 mm, below typical robot machining tolerances.
  • Successfully generated tool paths based on registered gingival curves, avoiding interference during machining.
  • Demonstrated effective flexible cutting and product extraction of clear aligners using industrial robots.

Conclusions:

  • The PCA-ICP algorithm effectively solves coordinate system mismatch issues in clear aligner manufacturing.
  • The proposed method enables automated, precise, and efficient milling path planning for complex dental applications.
  • This research validates a more automated and cost-effective approach to clear aligner production.