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Towards the Development of Fabrication Machine Species for Filament Materials

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The research presented in this paper explores the concept of deploying collaborative heterogeneous robot systems where machines are working together towards a common fabrication goal. Augmenting or replacing existing industrial-robot fabrication processes with task-specific architectural construction machines has the potential to expand the design space of digital fabrication methods beyond the limitations of previously existing strategies. The proposed system implies the development of a library of hardware solutions as well as a digital control tool to enable successful execution of fabrication tasks.

This research is focusing on heterogeneous mobile robotic fabrication strategies specific to filament materials. Deploying smaller robots for manipulation of lightweight thread-like materials allows building significantly larger structures. Multiple task-specific machines developed in this research are designed to carry, manipulate, anchor and pass filament materials in an on-site architectural environment of interior space. This paper presents the current state of the catalogue of robot species developed in this research as well as the experiments and demonstrators performed to evaluate them. Ultimately this research aims to create a larger toolbox of hardware and software tools and methods for heterogeneous teams of custom single-task fabrication and construction robots.

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    Idle Time - The unproductive standstill of a machine from end of completion to the beginning of the processing of the next material [2].

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  1. Institute for Computational Design and Construction, University of Stuttgart, Keplerstr. 11, 70174, Stuttgart, Germany

    Maria Yablonina & Achim Menges

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  1. Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

    Jan Willmann

  2. Department of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

    Philippe Block

  3. Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

    Marco Hutter

  4. San Francisco, CA, USA

    Kendra Byrne

  5. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Tim Schork

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Yablonina, M., Menges, A. (2019). Towards the Development of Fabrication Machine Species for Filament Materials. In: Willmann, J., Block, P., Hutter, M., Byrne, K., Schork, T. (eds) Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018. ROBARCH 2018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_12

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