{"id":1587,"date":"2012-03-22T19:01:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/maps\/2012\/03\/22\/robotic-tile-placement\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:55:17","slug":"robotic-tile-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/maps\/2012\/03\/22\/robotic-tile-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic Tile Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/maps\/research\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2\">Research<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robotic Tile Placement<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Team:<\/strong> Martin Bechthold, Panagiotis Michalatos, Nathan King, Anthony Kane, Amanda Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Sponsored by ASCER Tile of Spain, this project develops an design to fabrication process for the creation of highly complex tile patterns impossible to place economically by hand. The study includes the creation of an integrated digital workflow, the testing of prototypical placement technologies, and a cost comparison with manual placement techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/maps\/files\/2024\/11\/IMG_2608small1-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of highly complex tile patterns being digitally fabricated\" class=\"wp-image-427\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/maps\/files\/2024\/11\/TIle-Placement-1024x318-1.png\" alt=\"Workflow images of the robotic tile placement process\" class=\"wp-image-7970\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robotic Tile Placement Workflow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This workflow&nbsp; overcomes limitations of existing methods that focus merely on efficiency. This research is to enables the installation of unique, one-off, and highly complex tile patterns impossible to install economically by hand. The research uses computational design and emerging&nbsp; robotic technologies for tile placement. Weighted randomness or patterns processed based on the analysis of bitmap images produce tile patterns within a cost-effective&nbsp; software platform. The code for the running of a robotic is generated automatically by the integrated code generator. The code can be simulated through a newly integrated tool that permits tool path visualization as well as cost and time estimates such as set up and placement times, adhesive application, and many more. Robotic tile placement ultimately adds value for tile producers by moving installation of specialty tile patterns to the place of tile production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King, Nathan &amp; Bechthold, Martin &amp; Kane, Anthony &amp; Michalatos, Panagiotis. (2012). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0926580513001283\">Robotic Tile Placement: Tools, Techniques and Feasibility.<\/a> 10.22260\/ISARC2012\/0072.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic Tile Placement Team: Martin Bechthold, Panagiotis Michalatos, Nathan King, Anthony Kane, Amanda Lee Sponsored by ASCER Tile of Spain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":1588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio","tag-ceramics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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