Soana, Valentina;
Minooee Sabery, Sharam;
Bosi, Federico;
Wurdemann, Helge;
(2025)
Elastic robotic structures: a multidisciplinary framework for the design and control of shape-morphing elastic system for architectural and design applications.
Construction Robotics
, 9
, Article 3. 10.1007/s41693-024-00128-8.
Preview |
Text
s41693-024-00128-8 (2).pdf - Published Version Download (12MB) | Preview |
Abstract
The design of adaptive structures and objects takes place at the intersection of design, architecture, robotics and engineering. Evolving from 1960s cybernetics to today’s interactive projects, technological advancements shape new visions for adaptive systems. A key challenge in this field is developing human-scale, shape-morphing structures. Elastic materials offer a promising solution for creating lightweight systems capable of large transformations with minimal components and energy, unlike conventional rigid systems. This approach requires methodologies for designing and controlling complex material deformations. While architectural and structural design methods focus on large-scale but static elastic structures, soft robotics explores dynamic behaviors. However these approaches are limited for complex shapes and large-scale, as their focus is on specialized applications. To address these issues, this research introduces a multidisciplinary framework for the design and control of shape-morphing elastic system for architectural and design applications. It also presents the concept of elastic robotic structures (ERS), which refers to a body of work developed with the framework. ERS are defined as large-scale elastic systems that are robotically actuated and can achieve multiple geometrical states, interacting with humans and adapting to diverse conditions. The multidisciplinary framework is presented for ERS design, characterization and control, showing how it leverages the integration of architecture, engineering and robotics to overcome the limitations of discipline-specific traditional approaches. The framework is applied in the realization of different types of ERS, which are presented and categorized. Combining the flexibility and interactivity of design methodologies with the reliability of robotic solutions will enable designers and engineers to develop innovative elastic shape-changing systems and program their behaviors.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Elastic robotic structures: a multidisciplinary framework for the design and control of shape-morphing elastic system for architectural and design applications |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s41693-024-00128-8 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693-024-00128-8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Soft robotics, Reconfgurable systems, Interactive architecture, Active structures, Lightweight structures |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205972 |
Loading...
Loading...Loading...Loading...Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
