Parametric Robot Control beyond CAD/CAM

摘要

Introduction. Through the rapid development of CAAD software in the last decades, architects, being able to control the architectural form parametrically, desire to control the construction and fabrication process of their own designs. However, leading CAAD developers have not yet provided adequate solutions for directly linking different types of CNC machines to CAAD systems. Especially industrial robots, known in architecture e.g. from Gramazio & Kohler's projects, commonly require various complex interfaces to realize designs. In our previous research we have shown the advantages of production-immanent design and real time feedback to evaluate not only the design of a parametric object, but also its fabrication related properties. We now propose a bottom up design approach via the creation of an intuitive, plug & play-based, offline robot programming interface for various CAM methods (e.g.milling, punching, wire-cutting) within a parametric modeling environment. The parametric model becomes a production-immanent design tool, actively "linked" to the robotic fabrication.