Cold Spray is an additive manufacturing technology in which fine metal powders are sprayed at supersonic speeds against a substrate to deposit material and build up a surface profile. Northeastern University’s Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing Lab’s research on the material properties of cold spray technology has been limited by an inability to deposit material in complex patterns.
  To address these limitations the Cold Spray Lab proposes a project to process a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model and generate a robotic motion plan to produce this CAD model in real life. This project will require the development of software and algorithms to leverage existing robotic and sensing equipment in a safe, accurate, and repeatable manner to make this technology practical for everyday use.