The migrating walls

Continuously reconfigurable interlocking modular discrete structures assembled by mobile robots

authored by

Victor Sardenberg, Andrea Kondziela, Antonin Brünner, Youssef Daadoush, Hendrik Wiese, Mirco Becker

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison of different workflows for mobile robotic fabrication using modular building blocks. Different localization, locomotion, and interlocking building systems strategies are tested and compared. The work is influenced by related research into ecosystems of building parts, design software, and builder robots to digitize the construction work. For localization, it compares LIDARs, reacTIVision, and ArUco markers. As a mobile platform, a MIR100 robot platform, a 3.3 m linear axis, and a manual trolly are used. Interlocking components such as wood slates, custom-made bricks, and interlocking wood building blocks are used. The research is in the field of collective robotic construction (CRC) using bespoke robots designed in tandem with specific discrete building blocks.

Organisation(s)

Digital Methods in Architecture Section

Type

Article

Journal

Spool

Volume

11

Pages

23–48

No. of pages

26

ISSN

2215-0897

Publication date

20.07.2024

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Urban Studies, Architecture

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.47982/spool.2024.1.02 (Access: Open)