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Design by Composition for Rapid Prototyping

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Michael Binnard

    1. Stanford University, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 525)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction — Two Approaches to Design

    • Michael Binnard
    Pages 1-8

  3. Design and Planning for Rapid Prototyping

    • Michael Binnard
    Pages 9-21

  4. Definitions for Design by Composition

    • Michael Binnard
    Pages 23-34

  5. The Compact Merging Algorithm

    • Michael Binnard
    Pages 35-54

  6. Compact Precedence Graphs

    • Michael Binnard
    Pages 55-76

  7. Design by Composition

    • Michael Binnard
    Pages 77-88

  8. Implementation

    • Michael Binnard
    Pages 89-94

  9. Fabrication Example

    • Michael Binnard
    Pages 95-105

  10. Conclusions and Future Work

    • Michael Binnard
    Pages 107-115

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 117-139
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About this book

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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  • Stanford University, USA

    Michael Binnard

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