PhD Defence by Ann-Sofie Fisker: Surface design and rationalization for robotic hot-blade cutting

Thursday 24 January 2019, at 13.00, The Technical University of Denmark, Building 303A, Auditorium 45

Principal supervisor: Associate Professor David Brander
Co-supervisors: Associate Professor Jens Gravesen and Associate Professor Jakob Andreas Bærentzen

Examiners:
Professor Steen Schyum Markvorsen, DTU Compute
Professor Helmut Pottmann, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Techn.
Professor Konrad Polthier, Freie Universität Berlin

Chairman: Associate Professor Jakob Lemvig, DTU Compute

Summary: New technologies for creating inexpensive curved architectural formwork are today available among designers and architects. However, due to the production constraints, designers are not always able to fabricate and realize their ideas. In this project, we have considered one of these technologies: robotic hot-blade cutting. Hot-blade cutting of architectural formwork allows architects to create surfaces and facades with a large variety of curved shapes. The hot-blade cutting process is to melt through the formwork with a heated flexible rod, the shape of which is necessarily an elastic curve. Thus, to design a surface to be built by this process, we need to design surfaces swept out by varying elastic curves. We have in this project presented various tools for designing with elastic curves and elastic splines. This is not straightforward, due to the nonlinear nature of elastic curves. However, by identifying a suitable polynomial proxy for elastic curves, we have produced a set of algorithms that allow one to easily design surfaces for hot-blade cutting.

READ MORE about this thesis in DTU Orbit.

A copy of the PhD thesis is available for reading at the department.

Everyone is welcome.

Tidspunkt

tor 24 jan 19
13:00

Arrangør

DTU Compute

Kontaktperson

Hvor

DTU, Building 303A, Auditorium 45