Designing for Digital Assembly with a Construction Team of Mobile Robots (2018)
article⁄Designing for Digital Assembly with a Construction Team of Mobile Robots (2018)
abstract⁄Advances in construction automation have primarily focused on creating heavy machines to accomplish repetitive tasks. While this approach is valuable in an assemblyline context, it does not always translate well for the diverse terrain and dynamic nature of construction sites. As a result, the use of automation in the architectural assembly has lagged far behind other industries. To address the challenges of constructionsite assembly, this project suggests an alternative technique that uses a fl eet of smaller robots working in parallel. The proposed method, which is inspired by the construction techniques of insect colonies, has several advantages over the use of larger machines. It allows for much greater onsite fl exibility and portability. It is also easy to scale the operation, by adding or removing additional units as needed. The use of multiple small robots provides operational redundancy that can adapt to the loss of any particular machine. These advantages make the technology particularly suitable for construction in hazardous or inaccessible areas. The use of assembly robots also opens new horizons for design creativity, allowing architects to explore new ideas that would be unwieldy and expensive to construct using traditional techniques. In our tests, we used a team of small mobile robots to fold 2D lasercut stock into 3D curved structures, and then assemble these units into larger interlocked forms.
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| Year |
2018 |
| Authors |
Kalantari, Saleh; Becker, Aaron T.; Ike, Rhema. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 2018: Recalibration. On imprecisionand infidelity. |
| Pages |
376-385 |
| Library link |
N/A |
| Entry filename |
designing-digital-assembly-with-construction-team |
