If you missed SIGGRAPH 2017 watch a selection of recorded Live Streaming Sessions.
Dynamic Fabrication
If you missed SIGGRAPH 2017 watch a selection of recorded Live Streaming Sessions.
A computational approach to creating animated soft robotic plush toys specifically designed to reenact user-authored motions. The design process is inspired by muscular hydrostat structures, which drive highly versatile motions in many biological systems.
James Bern
Carnegie Mellon University
Kai-Hung Chang
Carnegie Mellon University
Stelian Coros
Carnegie Mellon University
This interactive design system to create functional mechanical objects allows novice users to retarget an existing mechanical template to a user-specified input shape while preserving the functionality.
Ran Zhang
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Thomas Auzinger
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Duygu Ceylan
Adobe Research
Wilmot Li
Adobe Research
Bernd Bickel
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Given a conventional mechanism as input, this computational tool for designing compliant mechanisms replaces rigidly articulated joints with compliant flexures, whose parameters are automatically computed to optimize motion quality, resilience to failure, and economy of actuation of the resulting compliant mechanism.
Vittorio Megaro
ETH Zürich, Disney Research
Jonas Zehnder
Disney Research
Moritz Bächer
Disney Research
Stelian Coros
Carnegie Mellon University
Markus Gross
Disney Research
Bernhard Thomaszewski
Disney Research
This paper presents a novel geometric characterization of telescoping curves and explores how general free-form surfaces can be approximated by networks of such curves. Using this characterization, the approach develops a system for computational design and fabrication of telescopes.
Christopher Yu
Carnegie Mellon University
Keenan Crane
Carnegie Mellon University
Stelian Coros
Carnegie Mellon University
This paper presents a simulation-driven optimization framework that, for the first time, automates the design of highly dynamic mechanisms. The key contributions are a method for identifying fabricated material properties for efficient predictive simulation, a dynamics-aware coarsening technique for finite-element analysis and a material-aware impact response model.
Desai Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Levin
University of Toronto
Wojciech Matusik
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Danny Kaufman
Adobe Research
