The Intelligent Built-Environment as Cyber-Physical System

Discussions of intelligence in the built-environment began in the late 1960s and early 1970s [1]–[7]. They belonged to a broader technical and technological discourse, engaged across a variety of domains and disciplines, to explore potential opportunities entailed by the Information Age. During this nascent period, and partly due to the novelty...

Ancestorfuturist explorations within a design-to-robotic-operation framework

The workshop on Cyber-physical Spaces at the HIPERORGÂNICO 8: Ancestorfuturism (H8A) Symposium identified linkages between Constant’s vision from the 60-70s and its potential implementation with today’s technology. It engaged in the investigation of utopian/dystopian visions about future habitats by reinterpreting Constant’s New Babylon and...

Development of An Adaptive Staircase System Actuated by Facial-, Object-, and Voice-Recognition

This paper details a proof-of-concept development of an adaptive staircase system-type capable of user-specific mechanical reconfigurations actuated by facial-, object-, and voice-recognition. The system is described via two variation-prototypes - developed at Technology Readiness Level 4 - as instances of the same system-type. Accordingly,...

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,...

Development of a Light-Tracking and-Redirecting System Actuated by Hand-Gesture Recognition

This paper presents a context-Aware light-Tracking and-redirecting system guided by hand-gesture recognition. It is conceived as yet another mechanism within an ongoing development of a more intuitive and technically sophisticated Ambient Intelligence / Active and Assisted Living ecosystem. The detailed system consists of individual nodes...

Development of an eye- and gaze-tracking mechanism in an active and assisted living ecosystem

This paper details the development of an open-source eye- and gaze-tracking mechanism designed for open, scalable, and decentralized Active and Assisted Living (AAL) ecosystems built on Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs). Said mechanism is deliberately conceived as yet another service-feature in an on-going implementation of an...

Development of an acoustically adaptive modular system for near real-time clarity-enhancement

This paper details the development of an acoustically adaptive modular system capable of enhancing Speech Clarity (C₅₀ Clarity Index) in specific locations within a space in near real-time. The mechanical component of the system consists of quadrilateral, truncated pyramidal modules that extend or retract perpendicularly to their...

Machine Learning as Enabler of Design-to-Robotic-Operation

This essay promotes Artificial Intelligence (AI) via Machine Learning (ML) as a fundamental enabler of technically intelligent built-environments. It does this by detailing ML’s successful application within three deployment domains: (1) Human Activity Recognition, (2) Object as well as Facial-Identity and -Expression Recognition, and (3) Speech...

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...

Integration of a wearable interface in a design-to-robotic-production and -operation development

This paper presents the integration of an Internet of Things wearable device as a personal interfacing node in an intelligent built-environment framework, which is informed by Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation principles developed at Delft University of Technology. The device enables the user to act as an active node in the built...

Extension of a high-resolution intelligence implementation via Design-to-Robotic-Production and-Operation strategies

This paper extends the development of a responsive built-environment capable of expressing intelligence with respect to both ICTs and Adaptive Architecture. The present implementation is built with mutually informing Design-to-Robotic-Production &-Operation (D2RP&O) strategies and methods developed at Delft University of Technology ...

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...

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...

A high-resolution intelligence implementation based on Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation strategies

This paper presents an initial proof-of-concept implementation of a comprehensively intelligent built-environment based on mutually informing Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation (D2RP&O) strategies and methods developed at Delft University of Technology (TUD). In this implementation, D2RP is expressed via deliberately...

Design-to-Robotic-Operation Principles and Strategies as Drivers of Interior Environmental Quality

This paper presents a high-resolution intelligence implementation based on Design-to-Robotic-Operation (D2RO) principles and strategies specifically employed to attain and to sustain Interior Environmental Quality (IEQ) within a dynamic built-environment. This implementation focuses on two IEQ-parameters, namely illumination and ventilation; and...

Deep Learning Object-Recognition in a Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation Implementation

This paper presents a new instance in a series of discrete proof-of-concept implementations of comprehensively intelligent built-environments based on Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation (D2RP&O) principles developed at Delft University of Technology (TUD). With respect to D2RP, the featured implementation presents a customized...

An Extended Ambient Intelligence Implementation for Enhanced Human-Space Interaction

This paper proposes an extended Ambient Intelligence (AmI) solution that expresses intelligence with respect to both Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and spatial reconfiguration in the built-environment. With respect to the former, a solution based on a decentralized yet unified Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is proposed. This...