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.

Tiffany Cheng, Dylan Wood, Laura Kiesewetter

• Doctoral research – Material programming for 4D-printing: Architected mesostructures for bio-inspired self-shaping
• Workshop – ACADIA 2020: Dual Additive Manufacturing

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)

@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}
}