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Self-Organized Construction with Continuous Building Material: Higher Flexibility Based on Braided Structures.

  • Mary Katherine Heinrich
  • , Mostafa Wahby
  • , Mohammad Divband Soorati
  • , Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler
  • , Payam Zahadat
  • , Phil Ayres
  • , Kasper Støy
  • , Heiko Hamann

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Abstract

Self-organized construction with continuous, structured building material, as opposed to modular units, offers new challenges to the robot-based construction process and lends the opportunity for increased flexibility in constructed artifact properties, such as shape and deformation. As an example investigation, we look at continuous filaments organized into braided structures, within the context of bio-hybrids constructing architectural artifacts. We report the result of an early swarm robot experiment. The robots successfully constructed a braid in a self-organized process. The construction process can be extended by using different materials and by embedding sensors during the self-organized construction directly into the braided structure. In future work, we plan to apply dedicated braiding robot hardware and to construct sophisticated 3-d structures with local variability in patterns of filament interlacing.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 1st International Workshop on Self-Organising Construction (SOCO)
Number of pages6
Place of PublicationAugsburg, Germany
PublisherIEEE
Publication date19 Dec 2016
Pages154-159
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5090-3651-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Dec 2016
EventInternational Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems - Germany, Augsburg, Germany
Duration: 12 Sept 201616 Sept 2016
Conference number: 1
https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/fas-w/2016/12OmNxuFBoK

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems
Number1
LocationGermany
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityAugsburg
Period12/09/201616/09/2016
Internet address

Keywords

  • Robot sensing systems
  • Context
  • Mobile robots
  • Switches
  • Carbon

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