This paper discusses the design, fabrication and operational workflow of a novel hot-wire cutter used as an end effector for a robotic arm. Typically, hot wire cutters used a linear cutting element which results in ruled surfaces geometry. While several researchers have examined the use of hot wire cutter with cooperative robotic arms to create non-ruled surface geometry, this research explores the use of an actuated hot wire cutter manoeuver by a single robotic arm to produce similar form. The paper outlines the machine making process and its workflow resulting in a 1:1 scale prototype. The paper concludes by examining how the novel tool can be applied to an urban stage design. The research set up a fabrication procedure that has the potential to be deployed as an on-site fabrication methodology.
Freeform Volumetric Fabrication Using Actuated Robotic Hot Wire Cutter
The International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication ; 2020 ; Shanghai, China July 05, 2020 - July 06, 2020
Proceedings of the 2020 DigitalFUTURES ; Chapter : 26 ; 280-289
2021-01-29
10 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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