Development and Validation of a Nonlinear Fabric Model for Subsonic Parachute Aerodynamics

Parachute/flow interaction is dominant in evaluating a decelerator’s performance. Such interaction is characterized by nonlinear deformations and complex flow phenomena. While testing methods are available to investigate parachute performance, these are often costly and nonrepresentative of the desired flight conditions. To address the need for...

Energy analysis of autoclave CFRP manufacturing using thermodynamics based models

Autoclave curing is one of the most energy consuming processes in manufacturing carbon fibre reinforced polymers. In order to improve the energy efficiency, one needs to understand energy usage in an autoclave and factors that influence it. This work presents two thermodynamic based models for estimating energy consumption in an autoclave....

Robotic Building as Integration of Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation

Robotic Building implies both physically built robotic environments and robotically supported building processes. Physically built robotic environments consist of reconfigurable, adaptive systems incorporating sensor-actuator mechanisms that enable buildings to interact with their users and surroundings in real-time. These robotic environments...

Design to Robotic Production for Informed Materialization Processes

Design to Robotic Production (D2RP) establishes links between digital design and production in order to achieve informed materialization at an architectural scale. D2RP research is being discussed under the computation, automation and materialization themes, by reference to customizable digital design means, robotic fabrication setups and...

Kite-powered design-to-robotic-production for affordable building on demand

Building technologies employed today in 2nd and 3rd world countries are imported, expensive, outdated and unsustainable.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...

Informed Design to Robotic Production Systems; Developing Robotic 3D Printing System for Informed Material Deposition

This paper discusses the development of an informed Design-to-Robotic-Production (D2RP) system for additive manufacturing to achieve performative porosity in architecture at various scales. An extended series of experiments on materiality, fabrication and robotics were designed and carried out resulting in the production of a one-to-one scale...