A Design Environment for the Rapid Specification and Fabrication of Printable Robots
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Author(s)
Mehta, Ankur
Bezzo, Nicola
Gebhard, Peter
An, Byoungkwon
Kumar, Vijay
Lee, Insup
Rus, Daniela L
Date Issued
November 13, 2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Citation
Mehta, Ankur, Bezzo, Nicola, Gebhard, Peter, An, Byoungkwon, Kumar, Vijay et al. 2015. "A Design Environment for the Rapid Specification and Fabrication of Printable Robots."
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. In this work, we have developed a design environment to allow casual users to quickly and easily create custom robots. A drag-and-drop graphical interface allows users to intuitively assemble electromechanical systems from a library of predesigned parametrized components. A script-based infrastructure encapsulates and automatically composes mechanical, electrical, and software subsystems based on the user input. The generated design can be passed through output plugins to produce fabrication drawings for a range of rapid manufacturing processes, along with the necessary firmware and software to control the device. From an intuitive description of the desired specification, this system generates ready-to-use printable robots on demand.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23778-7_29
