RoMA: Interactive Fabrication with Augmented Reality and a Robotic 3D Printer

We present the Robotic Modeling Assistant (RoMA), an interactive fabrication system providing a fast, precise, hands-on and in-situ modeling experience. As a designer creates a new model using RoMA AR CAD editor, features are constructed concurrently by a 3D printing robotic arm sharing the same des...

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Main Author: Mueller, Stefanie
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121520
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description We present the Robotic Modeling Assistant (RoMA), an interactive fabrication system providing a fast, precise, hands-on and in-situ modeling experience. As a designer creates a new model using RoMA AR CAD editor, features are constructed concurrently by a 3D printing robotic arm sharing the same design volume. The partially printed physical model then serves as a tangible reference for the designer as she adds new elements to her design. RoMA's proxemics-inspired handshake mechanism between the designer and the 3D printing robotic arm allows the designer to quickly interrupt printing to access a printed area or to indicate that the robot can take full control of the model to finish printing. RoMA lets users integrate real-world constraints into a design rapidly, allowing them to create well-proportioned tangible artifacts or to extend existing objects. We conclude by presenting the strengths and limitations of our current design.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1215202022-09-23T12:00:07Z RoMA: Interactive Fabrication with Augmented Reality and a Robotic 3D Printer Mueller, Stefanie Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science We present the Robotic Modeling Assistant (RoMA), an interactive fabrication system providing a fast, precise, hands-on and in-situ modeling experience. As a designer creates a new model using RoMA AR CAD editor, features are constructed concurrently by a 3D printing robotic arm sharing the same design volume. The partially printed physical model then serves as a tangible reference for the designer as she adds new elements to her design. RoMA's proxemics-inspired handshake mechanism between the designer and the 3D printing robotic arm allows the designer to quickly interrupt printing to access a printed area or to indicate that the robot can take full control of the model to finish printing. RoMA lets users integrate real-world constraints into a design rapidly, allowing them to create well-proportioned tangible artifacts or to extend existing objects. We conclude by presenting the strengths and limitations of our current design. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Awards IIS-1422106) 2019-07-08T16:46:38Z 2019-07-08T16:46:38Z 2018-04 2019-06-28T13:03:52Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-4503-5620-6 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121520 Peng, Huaishu, Jimmy Briggs, Cheng-Yao Wang, Kevin Guo, Joseph Kider, Stefanie Mueller, Patrick Baudisch and François Guimbretière. "RoMA: Interactive Fabrication with Augmented Reality and a Robotic 3D Printer." In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal QC, Canada, April 21-26, 2018, Paper no. 579. en 10.1145/3173574.3174153 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) other univ website
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