Adaptive Clay Formations

Thesis project where a robotic clay aggregation method developed at MAS DFAB was further explored and refined. The project resulted in a 3.2 m long and 1.2 m high wall segment built using a six axis industrial robot mounted on a movable platform, and built with the robot re-localized three times.

In this project we refined robot end effector, we experimented with feedback driven fabrication and trajectory planning for the robotic arm.

Year	2020
Context	Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture & Digital Fabrication (MAS DFAB) thesis project, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
Collaborator	Edurne Morales Zúñiga
Tutors	David Jenny, Coralie Ming, Nicholas Feihl & Gonzalo Casas at Gramazio Kohler Resarch, ETH Zürich
Industry partners	Lehmag AG & Brauchli Ziegelei AG

Thesis available on LUP student papers.