Autodesk, Inc.

Carnegie Mellon University

Kai-Hung Chang

Mehdi Nourbakhsh

Chin-Yi Cheng

Daniele Moro

Nancy S Pollard

Jonathan King

Stelian Coros

Cornelia Ulrike Bauer

Dominik Bauer

A method and system provide the ability to optimize a structural engineering design. A dataset is synthesized by acquiring a structural skeleton design of an entire building. The skeleton defines locations and connectivities of bars that represent columns or beams. The skeleton design is represented as a structural graph with each bar represented as a graph node and edges connecting graph nodes. Structural simulation results are computed for the synthetic dataset based on the structural graph, various loads, and a structural analysis. A simulation model and a size optimization model are trained based on the structural simulation results with the size optimization model determining cross-section sizes for the bars to satisfy a building mass objective, building constraints, and output from the simulation model. The structural engineering design is output from the size optimization model.

Learning to simulate and design for structural engineering

A manipulation device includes an appendage extending from a base, the appendage comprising a flexible material having a resting pose and adapted to be deformed into a plurality of different poses, and at least one tendon attached to an end of the appendage and passing through the base or a portion of the appendage between the base and the distal end, such that actuation of the at least one tendon causes deformation of the appendage from the resting pose to a new pose. Systems and methods for fabricating and optimizing a manipulation device are also provided.

Flexible manipulation device and method for fabricating the same

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El Cerrito, CA, United States of America

Kai-Hung Chang