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acadia24_v2_89 |
| authors |
Pacheco, Luis |
| year |
2024 |
| title |
Animaquina |
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ACADIA 2024: Designing Change [Volume 2: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference for the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9891764-8-9]. Calgary. 11-16 November 2024. edited by Alicia Nahmad-Vazquez, Jason Johnson, Joshua Taron, Jinmo Rhee, Daniel Hapton. pp. 591-600 |
| summary |
The complexities in robot integration, programming, and control pose significant challenges for designers in the field of architectural robotics. This paper identifies key opportunities to democratize the field by enhancing usability and simplifying integration processes. It introduces Animaquina, a toolkit designed to address these challenges through two main innovations: an intuitive interactive toolpathing approach and a modular, wireless hard¬ware framework for simplified integration of sensors, actuators, and end-effectors. The paper begins by analyzing current architectural robotic tools to identify areas of opportu¬nity. It then describes a prototype that implements the proposed strategies. This prototype is used for testing an iterative workflow, serving as the means to explore and validate the proposed functionality. The paper showcases an example workflow in robotic 3D printing and concludes by outlining the future roadmap for Animaquina's development as an open-source platform to democratize architectural robotics. |
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ACADIA |
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paper |
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