Kite-Powered Design-to-Robotic-Production for Affordable Building on Demand

H. Bier, R. Schmehl, S. Mostafavi, A. Anton, S. Bodea

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Abstract

Building technologies employed today in 2nd and 3rd world countries are imported, expensive, outdated and unsustainable. Highly developed countries, on the other hand, rapidly advance in developing affordable, numerically controlled and robotically supported material- and energy-efficient methods for building on demand. The research team proposes to close this gap by applying advanced design-to-robotic-production (D2RP) technologies developed at Technical University Delft (TUD) to construction problems in 2nd and 3rd world countries. The provided tool base uses refurbished robotic technology, which is retrofitted with state-ofthe-art open source control software, and by employing local approaches and available materials the dependency on imported materials and processes is drastically reduced. The D2RP unit is coupled with the electricity generating Kite Power (KP) system developed at TUD to create a mobile sustainable autarkic unit that can be deployed everywhere.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 34th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining (ISARC 2017)
PublisherCurran Associates, Inc
Pages566-570
Number of pages5
Volume1
ISBN (Print)9781510844735
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event34th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 28 Jun 20171 Jul 2017
Conference number: 34

Conference

Conference34th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction
Abbreviated titleISARC 2017
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period28/06/171/07/17

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