Special Issue on Augmented Prototyping and Fabrication for Advanced Product Design and Manufacturing

摘要

"Don't automate, augment!" This is the takeaway of the seminal book on the future of work by Davenport and Kirby. The emergence of cyber-physical systems makes radical new products and systems possible and challenges the role of humankind. Throughout the design, manufacturing, use, maintenance, and end-of-life stages, digital aspects (sensing, inferencing, connecting) influence the physical (digital fabrication, robotics) and vice versa. A key takeaway is that such innovations can augment human capabilities to extend our mental and physical skills with computational and robotic support - a notion called "augmented well-being." Furthermore, agile development methods, complemented by mixed-reality systems and 3D-printing systems, enable us to create and adapt such systems on the fly, with almost instant turnaround times. Following this line of thought, our special issue is entitled "Augmented Prototyping and Fabrication for Advanced Product Design and Manufacturing."