Course Contents
This seminar offers hands-on experience in robotic-oriented design and assembly of reconfigurable architectural structures. A methodological framework will guide students in understanding the entire workflow for discrete design and robotic assembly planning. Instead of starting from scratch, students will work with predefined assembly tasks, which include a set of standard parts (e.g. sticks, plastic bottles, blocks), developed connection types, and various combinatorial configurations.
Weekly sessions will focus on robotic-oriented design, optimizing the given assemblies through rapid prototyping, robotic simulation, and real-world experiments. Students will refine geometrical features to ensure compatibility with robotic grippers and establish compliant tolerances for robotic manipulation. Additionally, they will analyze assembly sequences and paths, structural stability, and develop strategies for material feeding, robotic picking, and placement to enhance overall assembly efficiency.
All design refinements, physical assembly trials and robotic execution processes will be systematically documented through drawings, diagrams, images and videos, ensuring a comprehensive record of experimentation, challenges, and optimizations.
Expected Number of Participants
25
Further Information
Moodle
Additional Information
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Online Offerings
Moodle
- Lecturer: Yuxi Liu
- Lecturer: Oliver Teßmann