Large-Scale Additive Robotic Manufacturing Platform

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ICD’s Large-scale Additive Robotic Manufacturing Platform

Large-scale Additive Robotic Manufacturing Platform

ICD’s Large-scale Additive Robotic Manufacturing Platform provides a framework for experimentation with additive fabrication processes and hybrid material systems. The physical platform consists of a 6-axis KUKA Fortec KR420 R3080 on a 12-meter linear track and interchangeable end effectors, including a CEAD pellet extruder for fused granular fabrication and a vacuum gripper for handling planar elements.

This platform opens new opportunities for the robotic material programming of multi-resolution timber- and cellulose-based biocomposite structures with a first application in upscaled self-shaping metamaterial mechanisms. It has been further developed to include a 12kW spindle for integrating high-precision cellulose-based networks within timber elements that arise at the intersection of subtractive and additive processes.

CONTRIBUTORS

Tiffany Cheng, Dylan Wood, Laura Kiesewetter

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

Cheng, T., Wood, D., Kiesewetter, L., Özdemir, E., Antorveza, K., Menges, A.: 2021, Programming material compliance and actuation: hybrid additive fabrication of biocomposite structures for large-scale self-shaping. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, vol. 16, no. 5. (DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ac10af)

Özdemir, E., Kiesewetter, L., Antorveza, K., Cheng, T., Leder, S., Wood, D., Menges, A.: 2021, Towards Self-shaping Metamaterial Shells: A Computational Design Workflow for Hybrid Additive Manufacturing of Architectural Scale Double-Curved Structures. Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES (CDRF 2021), pp. 275–285. (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-5983-6_26)

HOW TO CITE

@article{Cheng.2021,
 author = {Cheng, Tiffany and Wood, Dylan and Kiesewetter, Laura and {\"O}zdemir, Eda and Antorveza, Karen and Menges, Achim},
 year = {2021},
 title = {Programming material compliance and actuation: hybrid additive fabrication of biocomposite structures for large-scale self-shaping},
 journal = {Bioinspiration {\&} biomimetics},
 volume = {16},
 number = {5},
 doi = {10.1088/1748-3190/ac10af}
}

Contact Information

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Tiffany Cheng

Dr.-Ing.

Research Group Leader | Material Programming

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