This paper presents and investigates a cyber-physical fabrication workflow, which can respond to the deviations between built- and designed form in real-time with vision augmentation. We apply this method for large scale structures built from natural bamboo poles. Raw bamboo poles obtain evolutionarily optimized fibrous layouts ideally suitable for lightweight and sustainable building construction. Nevertheless, their intrinsically imprecise geometries pose a challenge for reliable, automated construction processes. Despite recent digital advancements, building with bamboo poles is still a labor-intensive task and restricted to building typologies where accuracy is of minor importance. The integration of structural bamboo poles with other building layers is often limited by tolerance issues at the interfaces, especially for large scale structures where deviations accumulate incrementally. To address these challenges, an adaptive fabrication process is developed, in which existing deviations can be compensated by changing the geometry of subsequent joints to iteratively correct the pose of further elements. A vision-based sensing system is employed to three-dimensionally scan the bamboo elements before and during construction. Computer vision algorithms are used to process and interpret the sensory data. The updated conditions are streamed to the computational model which computes tailor-made bending stiff joint geometries that can then be directly fabricated on-the-fly. In this paper, we contextualize our research and investigate the performance domains of the proposed workflow through initial fabrication tests. Several application scenarios are further proposed for full scale vision-augmented bamboo construction systems.


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    Title :

    Working with Uncertainties: An Adaptive Fabrication Workflow for Bamboo Structures


    Contributors:
    Yuan, Philip F. (editor) / Yao, Jiawei (editor) / Yan, Chao (editor) / Wang, Xiang (editor) / Leach, Neil (editor) / Qi, Yue (author) / Zhong, Ruqing (author) / Kaiser, Benjamin (author) / Nguyen, Long (author) / Wagner, Hans Jakob (author)

    Conference:

    The International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication ; 2020 ; Shanghai, China July 05, 2020 - July 06, 2020


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2021-01-29


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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