14:40 rC3 re-sPaCe

Students: Yuechuan Jin,Yaosheng tang,Yongye Xie,Weiheng Zhao

Design: Tyson Hosmer, Octavian Gheorghiu, Philipp Siedler

Technical: Ziming He, Baris Erdincer, Panagiotis Tigas

Theory: Jordi Vivaldi Piera

RE-SPACE is an autonomously adaptive reuse project that incorporates robotic building systems to reactivate derelict buildings for emergent formation of incubator communities. The project is developed as a continuously adaptive collective robotic construction system (CRC) with collaboration between three types of simple relative robots with low degrees of freedom (a free moving robotic arm, horizontal wheel robot, and track sliding robot) and modular blocks with magnets, tracks, and a reversible locking system. A user platform enables multiple users to input individual and shared spatial requirements and an agent-based spatial planner algorithm is being developed to autonomously negotiate and adapt space planning accordingly. Spatial adjustments communicated to the robotic system. A cyber-physical simulation system has been developed with integrated pathfinding and collaborative behaviour for various complex assembly tasks to be trained with reinforcement learning for efficient reconfiguration sequencing to adapt spatial layouts to the multi-user requirements.