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Menges - Franklin Menges
No full textB.S.; Ph.D., 1888; Sc.D., 1927; entered junior class; Alpha Tau Omega. Born Oct. 26, 1859. Menges Mills. Instructor, Gettysburg College, 1886-96; head of science dept., York H.S., 1897-1903; farmer's institute lecturer for Pa. Dept. of Agriculture, 1903-20; installed and had charge of the Pa. agriculture exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, St. Louis, Mo., 1904; made a large series of analyses of the poisons used for the destruction of insects of the soils; U.S. Congressman, 1925-31; in business, York, 1931- . Author of a two vol. work on a soil survey of Pa. Married Oct. 26, 1897, Mary McIlhenny, Gettysburg. Children: Mary S., b. Dec. 22, 1898; Janet E., b. March 7, 1901; Frances L., b. July 31, 1906; Jessie May, b. July 15, 1910, d. Nov. 3, 1914. Address: R.D. #1, York. Handwritten on back: ""Your friend & classmate, Franklin Menges, Menges Mills, York Co., Pa., June 21st. 1886"
Robotic Plans for the Assembly of A Large-Scale In-Plane Timber Prototype with a Collective Robotic Construction System
No full textThis data set contains the robotic plans for the assembly of a large-scale in-plane timber prototype with a collective robotic construction (CRC) system published in Automation in Construction (Leder, S., Kim, H., Sitti, M., Menges, A.: 2024, Enhanced Co-Design and Evaluation of a Collective Robotic Construction System for the Assembly of Large-Scale In-Plane Timber Structures. Automation in Construction, Vol. 162, 105390. DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105390). The assembly was made from a modular CRC system composed of robotic actuators and timber structs, more information on the system can be found in the paper. The prototype was assembled using four robotic actuators composed into two kinematic chains, each connected with a single timber strut.
The data set contains 19 robotic plans in JSON file format. Each plan or JSON file correlate to one of the 19 timber struts that were placed into the structure. Each plan contains information on the robotic actuators and timber struts within the scene as JSON Objects. Within each JSON Object, the position and location of part of the CRC system is described with different amounts of keyframes. The keyframes represent moments in the assembly process when at least one robotic actuator in the scene opens or closes its gripper.
Timber struts, identified with the key:value pair "frame_name": "s0" as one example, contain information on the position and orientation of the strut. Robotic actuator information is split into four JSON Objects: one for the top body ("frame_name": "b0_0_body_t"), one for the axis of the robot ("frame_name": "b0_0_joint_f"), one for the bottom body ("frame_name": "b0_0_body_b"), and one for rotation ("b0_0_rotation"). The examples key:value pairs are given for Robot0. The first three contain the position and orientation and the state of the gripper in the case of the bottom body. The rotation JSON Objects indicated how much the robotic actuator needs to rotate around its axis to get to that position.
The plans were generated using the agent-based model described in a paper in Journal of Computational Design and Engineering (Leder, S., Menges, A.: 2024, Merging Architectural Design and Robotic Planning Using Interactive Agent-based Modelling for Collective Robotic Construction. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 253-268. DOI: 10.1093/jcde/qwae028 ).
The plans can be used to simulate or execute the assembly process using the digital twin developed for the CRC system as published in another dataset (Leder, S., Kubail Kalousdian, N., Menges, A.: 2025, Digital Twin for a Modular Collective Robotic Construction System, https://doi.org/10.18419/DARUS-4761, DaRUS)
Collective Robotic Construction (CRC) Research Projects organized by Architectural Design Approach
No full textThis dataset contains the results of a database search to obtain research articles related to collective robotic construction (CRC). The database search criteria can be found in the related publication:
Leder, S., Menges, A.: 2023, Architectural design in collective robotic construction. Automation in Construction, Vol. 156, p. 105082. (DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2023.105082).
The found research articles are sorted by their relevance to the research topic of CRC and then if applicable, are categorized by the three dimension discussed in the paper, (1) design description, (2) goal specification, and (3) execution. The question that define the categorizaton at each dimension are as follows:
Is the architectural design known before construction?
How is architectural design communicated to the robots?
When is the robotic planning of the architectural design executed?
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Archbold researchers Eric Menges (left) and Marcia Rickey (right) present an excavated individual of <i>E</i>. <i>rosescens</i>.
No full textArchbold researchers Eric Menges (left) and Marcia Rickey (right) present an excavated individual of E. rosescens.</p
Multi-storey Timber Buildings and Design and Construction Stakeholder Constellations Data: 99 DACH Projects
No full textThis repository contains a collection of data on 99 contemporary multi-storey timber building projects in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), designed and planned between 2004 and 2021, and the stakeholders involved in their design and construction. The dataset consists of quantitative and qualitative project data on buildings 4 stories tall and above. This includes general information on project location, construction year, building height (number of stories), links, type of structural system, materials used in construction, and classification of the design based on the form of the massing and the organization principle of the floorplan, as well as a classification into innovation trajectories in timber construction. These are defined as the following three groups; (T1) standard innovation, (T2) incremental innovation, and (T3) pioneering innovation trajectories in timber construction. A total of 306 project stakeholders, their roles on the project as architects, engineers, timber engineers, general contractors, fabricators, and timber suppliers, the client type (public or private) and, when available, the motivation for the use of timber (i.e., sustainability) are also included in the dataset. Link to their website, and location absed on the headquarters, are included in the data on the stakeholders. In addition, the buildings data includes projectID's that can be used to find the projects in some of the related datasets
ABxM.DistributedRobotics.RADr: Agent-based Design and Control of multiple Roaming Autonomous Distributed robots (RADr)
No full textABxM.DistributedRobotics.RADr is an add-on to ABxM.Core for agent-based design and control of multiple Roaming Autonomous Distributed robots (RADr) that assemble hexagonal digital materials. The add-on contains various agent system constructs and utilities for simulation of the swarm within Rhino/Grasshopper and control of physical swarm of wheeled mobile robots. This version contains the tools for MQTT communication between Rhino/Grasshopper and the robots as well as between Rhino/Grasshopper and Motive, the software from Optitrack a motion capture system that can be utilized to track the robots. MQTT is a standard messaging protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT).The package includes two example files:
01_Example_CollaborativeCarrying.gh: Simulates a swarm of robots that must collaborate to move the digital material
02_Example_PaintedDesert.gh: Simulates the sorting of digital material by color. </li
ABxM.DistributedRobotics.RP19: Agent-Based Models for a Modular Collective Robotic Construction System
No full textABxM.DistributedRobotics.RP19 is an add-on to ABxM.Core for agent-based modelling of a collective robotic construction (CRC) system developed in the context of Research Project 19-1 (RP19-1) "Leveraging The Building Material As Part Of The Robotic Kinematic System For Parallel Construction" from the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC). The add-on contains three agent constructs which revolve around the agent representing the building material or the mobile robots in the modelled CRC system. The agent constructs of BuildingMaterialAgent or MobileRobotAgent are utlized for the sole purpose of architectural design while the agent construct of KCAgent can be used to also robotically plan the structure. The first two constructs are discussed in the paper:
Leder, S., Menges, A. (2023). Introducing Agent-Based Modeling Methods for Designing Architectural Structures with Multiple Mobile Robotic Systems. In: Gengnagel, C., Baverel, O., Betti, G., Popescu, M., Thomsen, M.R., Wurm, J. (eds) Towards Radical Regeneration. DMS 2022. Springer, Cham. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_7).
And the other construct is discussed in the paper:
Leder, S., Menges, A.: 2024, Merging architectural design and robotic planning using interactive agent-based modelling for collective robotic construction. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, Vol. 11, pp. 253-268. (DOI: 10.1093/jcde/qwae028).
The package includes examples files to be to be used within Rhino/Grasshopper that demonstrate implementations of each agent type
Sr. Delouise Menges
No full textIn this interview, Sister Delouise Menges discusses her decision to become a Sister of Saint Frances after witnessing her father’s strong Catholic faith. She reflects on her admiration for the sisters who taught her throughout her years in school. As a postulant, Sister Menges was sent on mission to St. Mary’s in Middletown, Ohio and Saint Christopher’s in Indianapolis to experience community life. Both occasions helped Sister Menges transition to community living in a time of change. She discusses such issues as the interpretation of dress code and changes in the habit. Sister Menges also recalls her time teaching religion classes through Marian University, her experience working at the Indiana Boys’ and Girls’ Schools, and her 45 years as a classroom teacher—experiences that continue to shape her prayer life and outlook on the world. Sister Menges speaks candidly about her many years as a seventh grade English and religion teacher, and how she realized her primary call as a Sister of Saint Francis was to help students “see the light in others”—a true Franciscan value.https://mushare.marian.edu/wrp/1029/thumbnail.jp
Menges, Cora B.
No full textWalter A. Menges, Sr. - husbandhttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1934/1288/thumbnail.jp
Roaming Autonomous Distributed robot (RADr)
No full textRoaming Autonomous Distributed robot (RADr) is a two-wheeled mobile robot that can assemble hexagonal digital materials. This dataset contains the 3D models for a RADr and a digital material that the RADr can actively grab with an electromagnet and move around (in 3dm and STEP file format). On top of each, there are retroreflective markers so that can be tracked by a motion capture system such as Optitrack or Vicon. The dataset also contains the robot code that is uploaded to the robot to enable its wireless control via MQTT. MQTT is a standard messaging protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT).
The electronic components on the robot are as follows:
Arduino Uno Wi-Fi Rev2
2 ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL XL430-W250-T with Wheel Set for TurtleBot3
ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL Motor Shield
11.1 V 2250 mAh Lipo Battery
8kg Electromagnet
MOSFET
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