On the way to designing customized products as one of the core activities of Industry 4.0, the
strategy of computational design emerges as a unique design process due to its flexibility …

Shape grammars are one of the main generative design algorithms. The theories and
practices of shape grammars have developed and evolved for over four decades and …

As a ubiquitous paper folding art, origami has promising applications in science and
engineering. Many software and parameterized methods have been proposed to draw …

Soft locomotion robots are intrinsically compliant and have a large number of degrees of
freedom. They lack rigid components that provide them with higher flexibility, and they have …

The transformation in manufacturing capability being driven by new processes, such as
additive manufacturing, offers huge potential for product innovation and opportunity to create …

A brief survey of the expressive power of Shape Machine, a new shape grammar interpreter,
is presented. The work is presented in two parts: A brief presentation of a series of shape …

The research field of Computational Design Synthesis (CDS) aims to support product
development through formalization and automation of knowledge-intensive design tasks, eg …

The use of generative design grammars for computational design synthesis has been shown
to be successful in many application areas. The development of advanced search and …

Due to the continuous changes in its complex and dynamic work environment, work in the
construction industry is one of the most dangerous. Many of the existing workplace safety …

Since the introduction of spatial grammars 45 years ago, numerous grammars have been
developed in a variety of fields from architecture to engineering design. Their benefits for …