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Took a class a few years ago which was on developing optimization pipelines for engineering design. Was fun, fairly mixed bag of students from all over the inst
by szvsw 2y ago
Took a class a few years ago which was on developing optimization pipelines for engineering design. Was fun, fairly mixed bag of students from all over the institute, both undergrad and grad. Anyways, one student from aero/astro did a project on wire-bending for assembly of truss-like structures… in space! I believe his project was on trying to improve the bending sequence to arrive at an arbitrary desired structure. Not sure if he ended up publishing his work.
- contingencies 2y agoCool. Space would be a great place for it - less opposing forces, plenty of 'space', so simpler processes become more scalable. On folding, there's some interesting similar work from origami academics and noodle nerds looking at things like how you can pre-score or pre-plan to auto-achieve a selected geometry by constricting limited lines of tension across partly rigid planes, or achieve arbitrary geometries on flatpack noodles when rehydration occurs. In general, the flatpack/IKEA notion gets really hard really quickly once you take tooling, protected workspace and dextrous free labor out of the equation.