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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Investigations on Potentials of Robotic Band-Saw Cutting in Complex Wood Structures
Authors : Hua Chai, Philip F. Yuan
Published in: Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
In the field of wood manufacturing, CNC milling seems to be the only way to deal with geometrically complex wood components. Robotic band-saw, the combination of robotic fabrication and band-saw cutting provides a feasible solutions for producing curved wood beams without the immense time consumption of CNC milling method. This paper explores potentials of robotic band-saw cutting technology in the construction of complex wood structures. The research processes of two large-scale research pavilions, from structure design and optimization, Glulam production, robotic fabrication to site assembly, are presented in this paper to explore an integrated workflow of complex wood structures construction based on robotic band-saw. As the two pavilions show, robotic band-saw technology has the ability to perform high efficiency and accuracy both in the plane and space curved wood elements, and shows the potential to take over part of the work of CNC in wood construction.