All Bent Out…

Abstract

Abstract All Bent Out... explores adaptive fabrication techniques for robotically constructing steam-bent wood assemblies. The following paper discusses a con- stellation of hardware and software tools that leverage the material constraints of steam bending (e.g. spring back, irregular grain) as opportunities to develop adaptive fabrication workflows where predetermined machine tasks can be informed by sensor-based events. In particular, research in coordinated motion control of two industrial robots and environmental sensing help to negotiate dis- crepancies between intended, digitally modeled geometries and actual, physically bent wood assemblies.