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Robotic Fabrication Simulation for Spatial Structures, 2015-2020
This research project develops simulation-based computational methods and tools for supporting the fabrication-aware design of robotically assembled structures with discrete elements. The construction of such structures requires both, the precise guiding of building members around built parts and a strategy for compensating the accumulation of tolerances during fabrication. Hence, the specific focus of this research is the integration of automatic robot path planning including obstacle avoidance into a computational design environment and the simulation of the structure’s geometrical changes based on measured and estimated tolerances. As such, this research allows to investigate the constraints present in robotically fabricated spatial structures and to considerably expand their design and fabrication space.

This research is conducted in collaboration with the projects Multi-Robotic Prefabrication and Spatial Timber Assemblies within the framework of the National Competence Centre of Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication and validated through the construction of various large-scale prefabricated architectural prototypes in the Robotic Fabrication Laboratory (RFL).

Publications:

Gandia, Augusto, Stefana Parascho, Romana Rust, Gonzalo Casas, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler. "Towards Automatic Path Planning for Robotically Assembled Spatial Structures." In Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018, edited by Jan Willmann, Philippe Block, Marco Hutter, Kendra Byrne and Tim Schork, 59 - 73. Springer, 2018.
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Parascho, Stefana, Augusto Gandia, Ammar Mirjan, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler. "Cooperative Fabrication of Spatial Metal Structures." In Fabricate 2017, Achim Menges, Bob Sheil, Ruairi Glynn, Marilena Skavara, 14-16. London: UCL Press, 2017.
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Credits:
Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich

Collaborators: Augusto Gandia (project lead), Gonzalo Casas, Stefana Parascho, Andreas Thoma, Arash Adel, Matthias Helmreich, Dr. Romana Rust, Dr. Ammar Mirjan
Consultancy: Marc Freese

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