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Mobile Additive Manufacturing (2022-06)

A Case Study of Clay Formwork for Bespoke In-Situ Concrete Construction

10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_3

 Dielemans Gido,  Lachmayer Lukas,  Recker Tobias, Atanasova Lidia,  Hechtl Christian,  Matthäus Carla,  Raatz Annika,  Dörfler Kathrin
Contribution - Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, pp. 15-21

Abstract

The in situ production of concrete building components with Additive Manufacturing (AM) provides new possibilities in design and function. Current deployable solutions are often stationary gantry systems, which need to increase in size with the constructed object. This research aims to address this issue by using mobile robotic systems for in situ AM instead, which can manufacture structures that exceed their static work range. However, where stationary AM systems inherently exhibit a high level of accuracy, mobile AM systems must be context-aware through onboard sensing and therefore pose a significant research challenge in their deployment and operation. A case study is performed with a mobileAMsystem using a print-drive-print approach for the sequential fabrication of a 1:1 scale clay formwork of a bespoke, reinforced, and lightweight-concrete column, on which this paper presents first results. A two-tiered system is applied and validated, with initial global localization through 2D SLAM, and a second refinement relative to thework piece through a 2Dscannerfitted at the end-effector.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{diel_lach_reck_atan.2022.MAM,
  author            = "Gido Dielemans and Lukas Lachmayer and Tobias Recker and Lidia Atanasova and Christian Maximilian Hechtl and Carla Irmgard Ingeborg Matthäus and Annika Raatz and Kathrin Dörfler",
  title             = "Mobile Additive Manufacturing: A Case Study of Clay Formwork for Bespoke In-Situ Concrete Construction",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_3",
  year              = "2022",
  volume            = "37",
  pages             = "15--21",
  booktitle         = "Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2022",
  editor            = "Richard A. Buswell and Ana Blanco and Sergio Cavalaro and Peter Kinnell",
}
Formatted Citation

G. Dielemans, “Mobile Additive Manufacturing: A Case Study of Clay Formwork for Bespoke In-Situ Concrete Construction”, in Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2022, 2022, vol. 37, pp. 15–21. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_3.

Dielemans, Gido, Lukas Lachmayer, Tobias Recker, Lidia Atanasova, Christian Maximilian Hechtl, Carla Irmgard Ingeborg Matthäus, Annika Raatz, and Kathrin Dörfler. “Mobile Additive Manufacturing: A Case Study of Clay Formwork for Bespoke In-Situ Concrete Construction”. In Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2022, edited by Richard A. Buswell, Ana Blanco, Sergio Cavalaro, and Peter Kinnell, 37:15–21, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06116-5_3.