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Selected Publications
2024
- Skoury, L., Leder, S., Menges, A., & Wortmann, T. (2024). Digital twin architecture for the AEC Industry : A case study in collective robotic construction. Inproceeding Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 413–418. https://doi.org/10.1145/3652620.3688255
- Siriwardena, L., Stark, T., Lut, S., Wagner, H. J., Maierhofer, M., Bechert, S., Knippers, J., & Menges, A. (2024, July 7). Joint Effort - A Material-Robot System for Fibrous Joints of Lightweight Timber Construction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3639473.3665791
- Leder, S., Kim, H., Sitti, M., & Menges, A. (2024). Enhanced co-design and evaluation of a collective robotic construction system for the assembly of large-scale in-plane timber structures. Automation in Construction, 162, 105390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105390
- Opgenorth, N., Locatelli, D. N., Leder, S., Wagner, H. J., & Menges, A. (2024). Multi-scalar robotic fabrication system for on-site press gluing in multi-storey timber buildings. Automation in Construction, 168, 105774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105774
- Leder, S., Kannenberg, F., Siriwardena, L., Schwinn, T., & Menges, A. (2024). Approaching the Augmentation of Heuristic Behaviors with Reinforcement Learning in Collective Robotic Construction. SIGraDi 2024 - Biodigital Intelligent Systems XXVIII International Conference of the Ibero-American Society for Digital Graphics, 1. https://sigradi.org/sigradi2024/
- Leder, S., Siriwardena, L., Kragl, P., & Menges, A. (2024). Cyber-Physical Explorations of Collective Robotic Construction using Agent-Based Modelling. Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2024.
- Zhang, P., Sevim, S., Leder, S., Maierhofer, M., Schwinn, T., & Menges, A. (2024). Multi-Robotic Maypole Braiding. In O. Kontovourkis, M. C. Phocas, & G. Wurzer (Eds.), Data-Driven Intelligence - Proceedings of the 42nd Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2024) (Vol. 1, pp. 137–146). eCAADe.
- Leder, S., & Menges, A. (2024). Merging architectural design and robotic planning using interactive agent-based modelling for collective robotic construction. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, 11(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcde/qwae028
- Johnson, M., Kragl, P., Tucker, M., Leder, S., Kalousdian, N. K., & Menges, A. (2024). Differential Boundary Deposition: Towards Collective Robotic Construction with Amorphous Materials. Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018.
2023
- Leder, S., & Menges, A. (2023). Introducing Agent-Based Modeling Methods for Designing Architectural Structures with Multiple Mobile Robotic Systems. In C. Gengnagel, O. Baverel, G. Betti, M. Popescu, M. R. Thomsen, & J. Wurm (Eds.), Towards Radical Regeneration (pp. 71--83). Springer International Publishing.
- Yang, X., Lehrecke, A., Tucker, C., Estrada, R. D., Maierhofer, M., & Menges, A. (2023). Spatial Lacing: A Novel Composite Material System for Fibrous Networks. In C. Gengnagel, O. Baverel, G. Betti, M. Popescu, M. R. Thomsen, & J. Wurm (Eds.), Towards Radical Regeneration (pp. 556--568). Springer International Publishing.
- Yablonina, M. (2023). Designing with machines : task- and site-specific robotic teams for architectural in situ making. In Research reports / Institute for Computational Design and Construction (Dissertation No. 8, Institute for Computational Design and Construction, University of Stuttgart; Issue 8). https://doi.org/10.18419/opus-14509
- Leder, S., & Menges, A. (2023). Architectural design in collective robotic construction. Automation in Construction, 156, 105082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2023.105082
2022
- Tucker, C., Yang, X., Lehrecke, A., Maierhofer, M., Duque Estrada, R., & Menges, A. (2022). A Collaborative Multi-robot Platform for the Distributed Fabrication of Three-dimensional Fibrous Networks (Spatial Lacing). Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3559400.3561995
- Leder, S., Kim, H., Oguz, O. S., Kalousdian, N. K., Hartmann, V. N., Menges, A., Toussaint, M., & Sitti, M. (2022). Leveraging Building Material as Part of the In-Plane Robotic Kinematic System for Collective Construction. Advanced Science, 2201524. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202201524
- Kubail Kalousdian, N., Lochnicki, G., Hartmann, V. N., Leder, S., Oguz, O. S., Menges, A., & Toussaint, M. (2022). Learning Robotic Manipulation of Natural Materials with Variable Properties for Construction Tasks. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3159288
2021
- Yablonina, M., Ringley, B., Brugnaro, G., & Menges, A. (2021). Soft Office: a human--robot collaborative system for adaptive spatial configuration. Construction Robotics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693-021-00056-x
- Łochnicki, G., Kubail Kalousdian, N., Leder, S., Maierhofer, M., Wood, D., & Menges, A. (2021). Co-Designing Material-Robot Construction Behaviors: Teaching distributed robotic systems to leverage active bending for light-touch assembly of bamboo bundle structures. In B. Farahi, B. Bogosian, J. Scott, J. L. García del Castillo y López, K. Dörfler, J. A. Grant, S. Parascho, & V. A. A. Noel (Eds.), Realignments: Toward Critical Computation - ACADIA 2021.
2020
- Leder, S., Kim, H., Ozgur, O. S., Hartmann, V., Toussaint, M., Menges, A., & Sitti, M. (2020). Co-Design in Architecture: A Modular Material-Robot Kinematic Construction System. 2020 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Proceedings of Workshop on Construction and Architecture Robotics.
- Wyller, M., Yablonina, M., Alvarez, M., & Menges, A. (2020). Adaptive kinematic textile architecture. Construction Robotics, 4(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693-020-00046-5
- Vasey, L., Felbrich, B., Prado, M., Tahanzadeh, B., & Menges, A. (2020). Physically distributed multi-robot coordination and collaboration in construction: A case study in long span coreless filament winding for fiber composites. Construction Robotics, 4(1–2), Article 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693-020-00031-y
- Melenbrink, N., Rinderspacher, K., Menges, A., & Werfel, J. (2020). Autonomous anchoring for robotic construction. Automation in Construction, 120, 103391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2020.103391
- Melenbrink, N., Werfel, J., & Menges, A. (2020). On-site autonomous construction robots: Towards unsupervised building. Automation in Construction, 119, 103312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2020.103312
2019
- Maierhofer, M., Soana, V., Yablonina, M., Suzuki, S., Koerner, A., Knippers, J., & Menges, A. (2019). Self-Choreographing Network: Towards cyber-physical design and operation processes of adaptive and interactive bending-active systems. In K. Bieg, D. Briscoe, & C. Odom (Eds.), ACADIA – Ubiquity and Autonomy - Proceedings of the 39th ACADIA Conference 2019 (pp. 654--663). https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2019.654
- Leder, S., Weber, R., Wood, D., Bucklin, O., & Menges, A. (2019). Distributed Robotic Timber Construction: Designing of in-situ timber construction system with robot-material collaboration. In K. Bieg, D. Briscoe, & C. Odom (Eds.), ACADIA – Ubiquity and Autonomy - Proceedings of the 39th ACADIA Conference 2019.
- Yablonina, M., & Menges, A. (2019). Distributed Fabrication: Cooperative Making with Larger Groups of Smaller Machines. Architectural Design, 89(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.2413
- Yablonina, M., & Menges, A. (2019). Multi-species Robotic Fabrication for Filament Structures: Towards a Robotic Ecosystem, 2015. In G. Retsin, M. Jimenez Garcia, M. Claypool, & V. Soler (Eds.), Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation (pp. 86--87). DETAIL. https://doi.org/10.11129/9783955534257
- Yablonina, M., Leder, S., Kubail Kalousdian, N., & Menges, A. (2019). Choreographed Space: Distributed Mobile Robotic System for Temporal Architectural Change. ICETAD 2019 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Architectural Design.
2018
- Yablonina, M., & Menges, A. (2018). Towards the Development of Fabrication Machine Species for Filament Materials. Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018 Proceedings of the RobArch Conference 2018, 152--166. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_12
- Wood, D., Yablonina, M., Aflalo, M., Chen, J., Tahanzadeh, B., & Menges, A. (2018). Cyber Physical Macro Material as a UAV reConfigurable Architectural System. 320--335. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_25
- Leder, S., Weber, R., Bucklin, O., Wood, D., & Menges, A. (2018). Towards Distributed In-Situ Robotic Timber Construction. Proceedings of Research Culture in Architecture Conference 2018 (RCA 2018).
- Melenbrink, N., & Werfel, J. (2018). Local force cues for strength and stability in a distributed robotic construction system. Swarm Intelligence, 12(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11721-017-0149-2
2017
- Melenbrink, N., Michalatos, P., Kassabian, P., & Werfel, J. (2017). Using Local Force Measurements to Guide Construction by Distributed Climbing Robots. IROS Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2017, 4333--4340. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2017.8206298
- Yablonina, M., Prado, M., Baharlou, E., Schwinn, T., & Menges, A. (2017). Mobile Robotic Fabrication System For Filament Structures. Rethinking Design and Construction - Proceedings of the Fabricate Conference 2017, 202--209.
- Felbrich, B., Frueh, N., Prado, M., Saffarian, S., Solly, J., Vasey, L., Knippers, J., & Menges, A. (2017). Multi-Machine Fabrication: An Integrative Design Process Utilising an Autonomous UAV and Industrial Robots for the Fabrication of Long-Span Composite Structures. Disciplines & Disruption - Proceedings of the ACADIA Conference 2017, 248--259.
- Melenbrink, N., Kassabian, P., Menges, A., & Werfel, J. (2017). Towards Force-aware Robot Collectives for On-site Construction. Disciplines & Disruption - Proceedings of the ACADIA Conference 2017, 382--391.
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