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Design by Composition for Rapid Prototyping (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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Design by Composition for Rapid Prototyping (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 525
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At first glance, a book on "Design by Composition for Rapid
Prototyping" may seem out of place in a series on Robotics.
However, this work has a couple of strong connections to the field
of robotics and the robotics community, and I am delighted to
introduce it to the series. The first connection is the motivation
behind Binnard's work. Michael Binnard came to Stanford after
having done his Masters thesis at the M.LT. Artificial Intelligence
Lab, where he designed and built small walking robots, such as
Boadicea (http: //www.ai.mit.eduJprojects/boadicea/).At M.LT. he
observed first-hand how difficult it is to align, connect and
support standard actuators, sensors, and processors in small mobile
robots. Figure lea) below shows how complicated it is just to
connect a simple motor to one link of a robot leg using
conventional methods. Surely there had to be a better way Shape
deposition manufacturing, an emerging rapid prototyping process,
offered a possible solution. Actuators, sensors, processors and
other components could be embedded directly into almost arbitrary
three-dimensional shapes, without any of the fasteners and
couplings that complicate the design in Figure lea). The process
makes it possible to construct integrated robotic mechanisms, such
as the example shown in Figure 1 (b) and the additional examples
found in Chapters 7 and 8 of this monograph.
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