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Robotic Assembly of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures: From Computational Design to Automated Construction

The digitization of timber construction, the emergence of engineered wood products, and the urgent need to drastically reduce buildings' environmental impact have given a rebirth to wood as a construction material. On the one hand, increasing the use of ti ...

EPFL2023

10 recommendations which could significantly increase the effectiveness of Swiss climate policy

Sascha Nick

The Academic Citizens’ Assembly (ACA) is a model of a citizens’ assembly built on academic principles (evidence-based, lobby-free, no ideology), open to the whole society and, using a novel process and tools, scalable to potentially include millions of par ...

ClimAct (EPFL and UNIL)2022

A semantic-driven tradespace framework to accelerate aircraft manufacturing system design

Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

During the design phase of an aircraft manufacturing system, different industrial scenarios need to be evaluated according to key performance indicators to achieve the optimal system performance. It is a highly complex process involving multidisciplinary s ...

SPRINGER2022

Capillary assisted particle assembly for high aspect ratio nanorods

New developments in nanoparticle synthesis is opening new opportunities in bottom-up assembly. Indeed, monocrystalline and functionalized nanoparticles allow fabrication of metamaterials such as plasmonics and nanogap electrodes. Among the bottom up assemb ...

2021

Broadening artificial intelligence education in K-12: Where to Start?

Pierre Dillenbourg

Moving from steam and waterpower, electricity and assembly lines, and computerization, to the adoption of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Systems executed as intelligent machines, the world now dives into a new era called ...

2020

Flexible, adaptive industrial assembly: driving innovation through competition

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kieran Daniel Gilday

Robotics competitions stimulate the next generation of cutting edge robotics solutions and innovative technologies. The World Robot Summit (WRS) Industrial Assembly challenge posed a key research challenge: how to develop adaptive industrial assembly robot ...

Springer2020

Gel-Based Soft Interfaces for Fastener Manipulation in Robotic Agile Assembly

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kieran Daniel Gilday

Robotic manufacturing is increasingly moving towards one-off assembly tasks. Agile manufacturing systems must be able to adapt to changing parts and designs. The addition of a soft interface, between a picking tool and a part, can improve the performance a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2019

Improving dual-arm assembly by master-slave compliance

Sylvain Calinon, Emmanuel Pignat

In this paper we show how different choices regarding compliance affect a dual-arm assembly task. In addition, we present how the compliance parameters can be learned from a human demonstration. Compliant motions can be used in assembly tasks to mitigate p ...

2019

Achieving flexible assembly using autonomous robotic systems

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kieran Daniel Gilday

Prefabrication of structures is currently used in a limited capacity, due to the lack of flexibility, despite the potential cost and speed advantages. Autonomous flexible reassembly enables structures to be developed which can be continuously and iterative ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2018

6789. Detroit Techno Assembly Line: un musée de la musique électronique à Detroit (USA)

En 1908, la Ford T était la matérialisation d’une idée révolutionnaire qui allait changer le monde: l’Assembly Line. Detroit lui doit son histoire, pour le meilleur et pour le pire. L’Assembly Line est un processus de manufacture déléguant à chaque travail ...

2018

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