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Robotic Assembled Timber Structures with Integral Timber Joints

Research project to investigate robotic assembly methods for timber structure with integral timber joints.

The goal of this project is to answer two research questions:

• What are the robotic means to assemble timber structures with timber to timber joints?
• What new architectural possibility will this process enable?

These goals are achieved by developing new processes for automatic/robotic assembly of timber structures with timber joints. This repository is an incremental work (in progress) that contains code and documentation for these parts.

• Process Design / Timber Joints Assembly by Robotic Clamps
• Process Design / Prefabricated Spatial Timber Structures
• Process Design / Timber Joint Detailing for Robotic Assembly
• Hardware / Robotic Clamps
• Hardware / Clamp Control Electronics
• Hardware / Robotic Grippers
• Software / Clamp Controller (C++ Arduino Firmware)
• Software / Radio Controller (C++ Arduino Firmware)
• Software / Radio Communication Library (Python Package)
• Software / Radio Communication Library (C++ Arduino Package)
• Software / Assembly Robot Control Server
• Software / Assembly Process Sequencer (Python)
• Software / Robotic Arm Path Planner (Python)
• Design Software / Timber Assembly Modeling (Python)
• Design Software / Structure Analysis Integraion

A number of validation experiments and demonstrations during development:

• Hardware / Clamp Closing Wood Joint Validation

Project Documentation

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   README
   docs/setup
   docs/process_design/robotic_clamp
   docs/robot_programming/sequence_skeleton
   docs/reference/index
   CONTRIBUTING
   AUTHORS
   CHANGELOG

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