公开(公告)号：US20170043883A1

公开(公告)日：2017-02-16

申请号：US15340244

申请日：2016-11-01

Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Inventor： Matthew Eli Carney ,  Benjamin Jenett ,  Neil Greshenfeld

IPC: B64F5/00 ,  B64C1/06

Abstract: A set of machines and related systems build structures by the additive assembly of discrete parts. These digital material assemblies constrain the constituent parts to a discrete set of possible positions and orientations. In doing so, the structures exhibit many of the properties inherent in digital communication such as error correction, fault tolerance and allow the assembly of precise structures with comparatively imprecise tools. Assembly of discrete cellular lattices by a Modular Isotropic Lattice Extruder System (MILES) is implemented by pulling strings of lattice elements through a forming die that enforces geometry constraints that lock the elements into a rigid structure that can then be pushed against and extruded out of the die as an assembled, loadbearing structure.

Abstract translation: 一组机器和相关系统通过分立部件的添加组件构建结构。 这些数字材料组件将组成部分约束成一组可能的位置和取向。 在这样做时，这些结构显示出数字通信中固有的许多属性，如纠错，容错，并允许使用相对不精确的工具组装精确的结构。 通过模块化各向同性晶格挤出机系统（MILES）组装离散的蜂窝状晶格是通过将成形模具拉入晶格元素串来实现的，该成形模具实现了将元件锁定成刚性结构的几何约束， 作为组装的承重结构。