Autonomous in Craft - Embedding Human Sensibility in Architectural Robotic Fabrication

Shaked, Tom; Bar-Sinai, Karen Lee; Sprecher, Aaron

doi:10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.243

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“…Past theories proposed that increased industrialisation creates increased automation in design (Kolarevic, 2003;Negroponte, 1995). However, there is evidence that digital fabrication methods can also form new links between robotic tools, craftsmanship, and local building traditions (Shaked et al, 2020). Digital fabrication, when implementing industrial robotics and AR can shift the focus from automation towards opportunities for human and robot interactions in assisting or augmenting daily work tasks such as making manufacturing patterns (Lavallee et al, 2011;Verma & Epps, 2013).…”

Section: Robotic Fabrication and Augmented Reality In Hybrid Digital ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further research has used AR to guide analogue skills such as points for welding and helping assembly of fabrication components (Bottani & Vignali, 2019). Studies have also analysed human skillsets have used motion capture, force sensors, and robotic vision to establish how robots can replicate human actions through force, speed, and motion (Brugnaro & Hanna, 2017;Shaked et al, 2020). However, analysis of traditional craft techniques has often been undertaken for aiding robotic automation, rather than providing insight into how the technology can be used as a part of the crafting process (Brugnaro & Hanna, 2017;Schwarzmann, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Hybrid Digital Crafts With Collaborative Robotics

Burden¹,

Donovan²,

Caldwell³

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CAADRIA Proceedings

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Bespoke manufacturers that fabricate for architecture and design rely on skill artisans such as patternmakers to remain profitable. Collaborative robotics and augmented reality (AR) offer new technological options and approaches that integrate with existing artisan techniques. Can these technologies provide productive and practical assistance to skilled handcraft artisans? This research presents an original approach to robotic fabrication using AR robot control, and artisan techniques to fabricate an original design. The method includes documenting artisan ethnography, designing a custom cutting end effector and an AR control interface, utilising the capabilities of the robot fabricating system. The research outcome is a hybrid digital craft approach to collaborative robotic patternmaking and handcrafting. The fabrication system reduced the amount of time and physical exertion of designing and cutting out patterns from various materials. This demonstrates that robotic tools can expand rather than replace the capability of existing artisan occupations, helping to strengthen resilience in local industries and promote new innovations.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Robotic Fabrication and Augmented Reality In Hybrid Digital ...mentioning

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Hybrid Digital Crafts With Collaborative Robotics

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Donovan²,

Caldwell³

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Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) [Volume 2]

2022

CAADRIA Proceedings

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This paper discusses the design and development of scale masonry structures using robot arms, computer vision hardware and bespoke computational workflows. In parallel to the development of full-scale masonry solutions using a Cable Driven Parallel Robot (CDPR), a faster method for testing large numbers of brick elements is needed to verify buildability, mitigate collisions, and think differently about recycled materials during real-world construction activities. Additionally, by incorporating scanning and analysis technology, materials can be digitized, and their attributes translated into variables for placement within an intended structure.

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“…Recent research has focused on the digitalization of production techniques rather than the geometric precision of final products. For instance, using motion capture technologies, surface texturing parameters in analog chiseling techniques are analyzed and converted into customizable toolpaths (Steinhagen et al, 2016;Brugnaro and Hanna 2017;Shaked et al, 2020). However, there has not yet been a detailed investigation of the digitalization of the sculpting techniques that determine the three-dimensional shape of the carvings.…”

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“…There are two possible approaches in digital stone carving research: developing a single autonomous system or combining analog and digital methods. Autonomous systems have the potential to transfer advanced skills to robotic applications so that they can adapt to material behavior based on real-time data (Shaked et al, 2020). Hybrid approaches, on the other hand, use automation to quickly and accurately generate a rough shape to then continue with traditional tools to manually apply the marks delivering the final texture (Hayes et al, 2014;Kim et al, 2020).…”

Section: Digital Workflows In Stone Carvingmentioning

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Towards a Digital Practice of Historical Stone Carvings

Hamzaoğlu¹,

Özkar²,

Aydın³

2022

eCAADe Proceedings

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Local traditional crafts in various parts of the world are being transformed by digitalization in tandem with broader social and economic changes. Mardin, a historical and cultural hub in southeast Anatolia, presents an exemplary case with its stone architecture. Whereas the number of skilled craftsmen is diminishing, digital fabrication ateliers are increasingly in demand in the city and rising in number. Training programs have already started integrating CNC milling-based techniques. However, despite the growing interest in adapting computational processes, how the craft knowledge is documented and conveyed to multiple actors for maintaining and even increasing the quality of workmanship is yet to be explored. We present a novel way to document carving procedures and to create an inventory of the 3D motifs using cross-sections as complements to front views. The research engages end-user participants of different backgrounds, such as stone cutting technologies and architecture, with little or no practical knowledge of digital manufacturing. The work focuses on a selection of motifs from the Syriac stone carving heritage in Mardin, the documentation of which is very limited. The proposed workflow begins with recording the surface depth and the variations in the cross-section using digital scans. In the second stage, we consider the potential subtractive transformations that result in the final form and reconstruct them as milling operations with a parametric and procedural modeling approach. Various milling processes are derived by relating the shapes to the available cutting tools and materials. The study contributes to creating the inventory of an engraving culture that has lasted for hundreds of years while developing a generally applicable and transferable knowledge base to increase its sharing and dissemination in the age of digitally supported production.

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Autonomous in Craft - Embedding Human Sensibility in Architectural Robotic Fabrication

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Hybrid Digital Crafts With Collaborative Robotics

Hybrid Digital Crafts With Collaborative Robotics

Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) [Volume 2]

Towards a Digital Practice of Historical Stone Carvings

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