The Flexing Room Architectural Robot. An Actuated Active-Bending Robotic Structure using Human Feedback (2018)
article⁄The Flexing Room Architectural Robot. An Actuated Active-Bending Robotic Structure using Human Feedback (2018)
abstract⁄Advances in autonomous control of objectscale robots, both anthropomorphic and vehicular, are posing new humanmachine interface challenges. In architecture, very few examples of autonomous inhabitable robotic architecture exist. A number of factors likely contribute to this condition, among them the scale and cost of architectural adaptive systems, but on a more fundamental conceptual level also the questions of how architectural robots would communicate with their human inhabitants. The Flexing Room installation is a roomsized actuated activebending skeleton structure. It uses rudimentary social feedback by counting people to inform its behavior in the form of actuated poses of the room enclosure. An operational fullscale prototype was constructed and tested. To operate it no geometricbased simulation was used the only communication between computer and structure was in sending values for the air pressure settings and in gathering sensor feedback. The structure’s physical state was resolved through the embodied computation of its interconnected parts, and the peoplecounting sensor feedback influences its next action. Future work will explore the development of learning processes to improve the humanmachine coexistence in space.
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| Year |
2018 |
| Authors |
Kilian, Axel. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 2018: Recalibration. On imprecisionand infidelity. |
| Pages |
232-241 |
| Library link |
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| Entry filename |
flexing-room-architectural-robot-actuated-active |
