Robotic Carving Craft, Research on the Application of Robotic Carving Technology in the Inheritance of Tradition-Al Carving Craft

Abstract

In order to realize the inheritance of handicraft skills via digital fabrication technique, so as to preserve the traditional construction culture, this paper discusses a method of control industrial robot (six-axis KUKA kr-60 robotic arm) simulate carving craftsmen working process and explores the relationship between carving posture and different clay states. This paper starts with discussion with cultural heritage in the background of digital tools application. Next, a method to determine the pose of robotic arm by giving the angle value of the six axis is applied in the subsequent carving experimental research, which can make the robotic arm have a smoother and reasonable motion performance by disable the redundant axis movement of the robotic arm when adjusting those poses. Then, a series of carving experiments has been carried out to explore the connection between robotic movement and carved detail, together with a carving path arrangement method that allow for specific carved lines caused by given axis value. This research shows the possibility to create complex form through defining robot movement, which could fundamentally make robot manufacturing a new formal meaning.