Developing Responsive Environments based on Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation Principles

The development of physical and computational mechanisms aimed at augmenting architectural environments has been one of the foci of research implemented at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TUD) for more than a decade. This paper presents the integration of distributed responsive climate...

Development of a smart sleeve control mechanism for active assisted living

This paper describes the development of a Smart Sleeve control mechanism for Active Assisted Living. The Smart Sleeve is a physically worn sleeve that extends the user's control capability within his/her intelligent built-environment by enabling (1) direct actuation and/or (2) teleoperation via a virtual interface. With respect to the first,...

Actuation Confirmation and Negation via Facial-Identity and -Expression Recognition

This paper presents the implementation of a facial-identity and-expression recognition mechanism that confirms or negates physical and/or computational actuations in an intelligent built-environment. Said mechanism is built via Google Brain's TensorFlow (as regards facial identity recognition) and Google Cloud Platform's Cloud Vision API (as...

Design and Development of a Novel Robotic Gripper for Automated Scaffolding Assembly

Scaffolding assembly constitutes a potentially dangerous and time-consuming task within the construction process. In most industrialized nations, said assembly is the process in which most of the causalities of the Construction Industry happen, especially in projects characterized by high complexity and restricted operation space. The...