Robot assisted carpentry for mass customization

Despite the ubiquity of carpentered items, the customization of carpentered items remains labor intensive. The generation of laymen editable templates for carpentry is difficult. Current design tools rely heavily on CNC fabrication, limiting applicability. We develop a template based system for carp...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Lipton, Jeffrey I., Schulz, Adriana, Spielberg, Andrew, Trueba, Luis, Matusik, Wojciech, Rus, Daniela
Övriga upphovsmän: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Materialtyp: Artikel
Språk:English
Publicerad: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2020
Länkar:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124754
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Sammanfattning:Despite the ubiquity of carpentered items, the customization of carpentered items remains labor intensive. The generation of laymen editable templates for carpentry is difficult. Current design tools rely heavily on CNC fabrication, limiting applicability. We develop a template based system for carpentry and a robotic fabrication system using mobile robots and standard carpentry tools. Our end-to-end design and fabrication tool democratizes design and fabrication of carpentered items. Our method combines expert knowledge for template design, allows laymen users to customize and verify specific designs, and uses robotics system to fabricate parts. We validate our system using multiple designs to make customizable, verifiable templates and fabrication plans and show an end-to-end example that was designed, manufactured, and assembled using our tools. ©2018