Fabrication and Robotics II

Catalog description

ARCH 784, is the second course in Fabrication and Robotics offered in the Master of Science of Architecture, Computational Technologies program. The objective of this seminar is for students to learn computation applied to Robotics digital fabrication. The objective of the two consecutive courses (ARCH 783, ARCH 784) is to build up relationships between digital fabrication, machinic systems, sensors and robotics, and architecture. Students will develop skills in visual algorithms applied to fabrication through Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper plugin, implement Python programming language for fabrication, KUKA PRC (KLR). First, students will build up skills from ARCH 783 in relation to simulating and executing protocols for coordinating one, two, three or four independent and interrelated combined robotic arms through KUKA PRC (KRL). Second, students will learn how to work through robotic fabrication implementing customized add-ons such as various types of injection or deposition 3d printing for concrete 3d printing and other materials. Third, students will learn how to develop and customize material mixes to implement through injection or deposition 3d printing using robotic arms add-ons. Fourth, Students may learn to use machine vision and implement AI for robotic fabrication. Students will Machine Learning to innovative in the relationship between CAM software and CNC, including 3d Printing and Robotic Systems through object tracking recognition. The seminar will study alternative means through machine vision to adjust, calibrate, deviate, and reprogram relationships between tool paths, material behavior under stress, and CAM feedback adjustment. Prerequisite Course(s): Prerequisites: ARCH 781, ARCH 783 Corequisites: ARCH 776, ARCH 782