Abstract: An improved swing arm manipulator is provided for displacing objects on an object carrier surface of an object carrier. The swing arm manipulator includes a swing arm rotatable around a rotation axis transverse to the object carrier surface. The swing arm includes a hollow elongate body and at least one extension part. The at least one extension part has an at least substantially cylindrical portion with which it is rotatably arranged in a hollow inner space of the hollow elongate body and has an at least substantially wedge shaped portion connected thereto, that extends towards the object carrier surface at an angle with respect to a surface normal of the object carrier surface. The improved swing arm manipulator is better arranged to manipulate objects of various sizes, while mitigating the risk that objects get stuck and/or are damaged.

Abstract: A control system unit for a 3-dimensional (3D) object manufacturing system is disclosed herein that comprises one or more sensors and a controller. The one or more sensors are to sense 3D-objects manufactured in the manufacturing system in accordance with product specification data and to generate sensor signals representative for the sensed 3D-objects. The controller is to determine 3D-object characteristics of said sensed 3D-objects on the basis of said sensor data signals and to issue one or more corresponding control signals to control a system actuator unit so as to act on said sensed 3D-objects in accordance with their respective determined characteristics. The controller comprises a synthetic sensor data module to generate synthetic sensor data from product specification data of 3D-objects to be manufactured with the object manufacturing system, to therewith simulate sensor data for said 3D-objects to be sensed when manufactured.