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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Main Authors: Lipton, Jeffrey I., Schulz, Adriana, Spielberg, Andrew, Trueba, Luis, Matusik, Wojciech, Rus, Daniela
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124754
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author Lipton, Jeffrey I.
Schulz, Adriana
Spielberg, Andrew
Trueba, Luis
Matusik, Wojciech
Rus, Daniela
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Trueba, Luis
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description 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
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spelling mit-1721.1/1247542022-09-28T17:22:33Z Robot assisted carpentry for mass customization Lipton, Jeffrey I. Schulz, Adriana Spielberg, Andrew Trueba, Luis Matusik, Wojciech Rus, Daniela Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 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 NSF (grant no. CMMI-1644558) 2020-04-21T13:46:02Z 2020-04-21T13:46:02Z 2018-05 2019-06-21T16:30:16Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 2577-087X https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124754 Lipton, Jeffrey I., et al., "Robot assisted carpentry for mass customization." 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 21-25, 2018, Brisbane, Qld. (Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE, 2018): doi 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460736 ©2018 Author(s) en 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460736 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) MIT web domain
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