The group is recognized for developing novel solutions to control and improve industrial additive manufacturing (AM) systems that are essential for U.S. manufacturers to make advanced aerospace, defense, and medical products. The new methods and integrated precision measurement systems achieve unprecedented flexible, adaptive, and optimized control and unparalleled capabilities to fabricate higher quality and more consistent metal AM parts to meet demanding performance requirements. Their groundbreaking results overcome the limited flexibility and adaptability of current industrial AM machines.