Knowldge representation for Japanese traditional wooden structure

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25420626
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Town planning/Architectural planning
• Research Institution: Chiba University
• Principal Investigator: HIRASAWA Gakuhito 千葉大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (30268578)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 伝統木造構法 / 知識表現 / 幾何学 / ロボット加工 / ビジュアルプログラミング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research focused on how to represent Japanese traditional wooden structure knowledge with declaratively expression. I tried to write knowledge for a roof corner which may be most difficult to design and build, owing to its complicated assembly of parts.
The demonstration to produce a precise scale model with the knowledge database was also tried. I made more than one hundred parts with cutting real wood by the processing machine that originally remodeled the 6 axis arm type robot. After that I succeeded to reproduce the detail of the roof corner part with putting the parts together. This 1/5 scale model is precise enough to suggest that the knowledge database is available in the real construction project.

Free Research Field

建築構法