Behavioural Production: Semi-Autonomous Approaches to Architectural Design, Robotic Fabrication and Collective Robotic Construction

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Autonomy: Orchestrating and Partnering with External Phenomena
	Behavioural Production
	Automatons
	Autonomous Systems and Degrees of Autonomy
	What this Book isn’t About
	Crafting Bespoke Designs through Autonomous Systems
	Multi-Agent Systems and Event-Based Design
	Synopsis: A Preview of Upcoming Chapters
Chapter 2: Architecture and Autonomous Construction: Industry 4.0 and Robotic Building Technology
	Our Constructed Present is Inadequate. A Band-Aid Won’t Do
	Industry 4.0 (IR4)
	Towards Automating Construction
	Design Research Leveraging Robotic Construction
	An Explorative Framework for Creative Autonomous Manufacturing
Chapter 3: Generative Production: The Agency of Things
	Material Engagement and The Agency of Things
	Generative Assembly
	Generative Fabrication
	Event-Based Rules of Material Engagement
Chapter 4: Autonomous Agents: Encoding Design Intent within Matter
	Architecture and Computation
	Architecture is Polyvalent Matter
	Towards a Complex Architecture
	Agent-Based Models
	Self-Organisation and Emergence
	Multi-Agent Design
	Developing Distinctive Design Character in 3D Graphics Media
	Non-linear Formation
	Design Agency
Chapter 5: Structural Agency: Encoding Structural Intent within Formative Processes
	Formative Processes
	Surface Formation and Structure
	Agent-Based Networks
	Surface-Strand Formations
	Non-Optimal, Negotiated Structural Formation
	Material and Fabrication Concerns
Chapter 6: Additively Manufactured Architecture: Form, Topology and Material Organisation
	Game-Changing Manufacturing
	Additive Manufacturing Technologies
	An Initial Set of AM Architectural Design Principles
	Generative Approaches to Anisotropic Topological Design
	Additively Manufactured Material Effects
	Incorporating Material Formation and Robot Manufacturing within Design
Chapter 7: Autonomous Perception: Leveraging Computer Vision and Machine Learning in Design
	Architecture and Visual Representation
	Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)
	Computer Vision
	Visual Character Analysis (VCA) in Design
	Incorporating Visual Character through Reinforcement Learning
	Cyclops: Integrating Machine Visio n and Learning within Generative Design
	Machinic In-Sites: Speculations on Semi-Autonomous Situated Design
	Architectural Haecceities
	A Posthuman Architectural Agency
	Towards Situated Design Responses
Chapter 8: Adaptive Manufacturing: Towards Situated, Embodied Production
	Design is an Embodied Act
	Behavioural Intelligence
	Behaviour-Based Control
	Design via Robot Behaviour
	Adaptive Manufacturing
	Posthuman Material Engagement
	Adaptive Multi-Robot Manufacturing
	Autonomous On-site Data Collection
	Towards Situated and Embodied Autonomous Design
Chapter 9: Aerial Additive Manufacturing: Explorations into Collective Robotic Construction
	Collective Robotic Construction
	Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing
	Aerial Additive Manufacturing (Aerial AM)
	Collective Aerial AM Software Framework
	Collective Aerial AM: Incremental Construction
	Collective Aerial AM: Generative Design by Self-Organisation
	Simulating Aerial Swarm Construction
	Exploring Autonomous Aerial Construction
	Design Agency in Collective Robotic Systems
Chapter 10: Behavioural Production: Semi-Autonomous Design, Manufacturing, and Construction
	Forecasting Architecture’s Trajectory
	From Generalised to Specific Design
	Distributed, Adaptive Manufacturing and Construction
	An Alternative Approach to Design
Glossary
Index