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This research proposes a design to fabrication data framework for multi-actor fabrication environments with robotic and human actors. The framework generates and exchanges fabrication data between the design elements and the fabrication environment. It features a uniform task data model to represent all processes in the fabrication procedure and link them to the design elements. The framework is demonstrated with a timber slab case study that shows the fabrication data generation, assignment to actors and ordering for execution with a multi-actor fabrication environment involving industrial robots and human workers. This framework opens new opportunities for continuous digital data exchange and feedback between the design and fabrication and allows for rapid changes in both the fabrication environment and the design.
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The research has been supported in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under the Excellence Strategy - EXC 2120/1 -390831618. The work presented in this paper was partially developed within the ITECH (Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research) Master’s program at the University of Stuttgart.
Additionally, the authors would like to thank Long Nguyen for the development of the robot kinematics solver ‘Virtual Robot’ at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD).
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Skoury, L., Amtsberg, F., Yang, X., Wagner, H.J., Menges, A., Wortmann, T. (2023). A Framework for Managing Data in Multi-actor Fabrication Processes. In: Gengnagel, C., Baverel, O., Betti, G., Popescu, M., Thomsen, M.R., Wurm, J. (eds) Towards Radical Regeneration. DMS 2022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_47
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