Computer-assisted robotic tiling of mosaics

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a system that is capable of tiling mosaics using a robot according to requirements of the individual customer. The art of mosaic, in one form or another, has been practiced manually for thousands of years. Modern developments in materials and production techniques could be found as evidence that mosaic is very much alive in the new millennium. It is very costly and also difficult to find skilful people to tile mosaic. Therefore a computer-assisted robotic system has been constructed and applied. To activate the system a particular algorithm has been developed and successfully applied on an available SCARA robot.

A computational methodology for the creation of photorealistic mosaic using breccia tiles

“…Öte yandan, Oral ve Erzincanlı [10] mozaik taşlarının geleneksel yöntemle yerleştirilebilmesi için bilgisayar tarafından kontrol edilen bir robot kol geliştirmişlerdir. Çalışmalarında mozaik taşlarının karakterizasyonundan ziyade robot kolun mekanizmasına dikkat çekilmiştir.…”

Towards on-site autonomous robotic floor tiling of mosaics

“…For automation of mosaic panels researchers have used either large custom robots they built [1], industrial robotic arms are used [2,3], or a planar 2 1/2 robot is used [4][5][6]. [1][2][3] demonstrates a method for parsing images on the computer into available tile sizes for the robot to use.…”

Measures of similarity between qualitative descriptions of shape, colour and size applied to mosaic assembling

“…In the literature, some assembling automations can be found which obtained successful results using squared/rectangular tesserae, with same or different colours, and with mainly the same size [4,5,6,7]. Navon [4] implemented a camera-based application for quality control of a floor tiling robot for assembling squared large prefabricated components into walls and floors.…”

“…Navon [4] implemented a camera-based application for quality control of a floor tiling robot for assembling squared large prefabricated components into walls and floors. Oral and Erzincanli [5] developed a software for tiling mosaics automatically by picking up the marble pieces from the supply stations and placing them according to their coordinates. The authors formed squared and quadrangled shaped mosaic configurations with pieces of fixed size using a computer controlled SCARA robot.…”