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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
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
Digital Twin for a Modular Collective Robotic Construction System
No full textThis dataset contains the digital twin developed for a Collective Robotic Construction (CRC) system, as published in Advanced Science (Leder, S., Kim, H., Oguz, O.S., Kalousdian, N.K., Hartmann, V.N., Menges, A., Toussaint, M., Sitti, M.: 2022, Leveraging Building Material as Part of the In-Plane Robotic Kinematic System for Collective Construction. Advanced Science, 2201524. DOI: 10.1002/advs.202201524).
In this version, the digital twin allows robotic plans in .JSON format to be loaded (Load Plan), and either simulated without the physical CRC system or executed in real time. In both modes, plans can be played through continuously or stepped through action by action. During simulation, users can control the playback speed (Speed), allowing the simulation to run faster than real-world robot operation.
In real-time execution mode (Actuate Real Motors), communication with the robots occurs via serial communication over Bluetooth. The construction process is monitored using an external motion capture system. Implementations for both Vicon and OptiTrack are included in the digital twin. Data captured from the motion tracking system can be used for position correction (Position Correction) at each step of the robotic plan, if desired.
Additionally, the robots in the CRC system can be manually controlled. Within the interface, users can rotate the main axis of each robot, open and close the top and bottom grippers, and control the tongue within the gripper. These controls are available for each deployed robot and are accompanied by visualizations of both the real-time robot positions and their expected positions based on the robotic plans.
The digital twin relies on external code based for some functionalities. Included in the dataset is a therefore README, which provides setup instructions, dependency guidelines, and licensing information
Haing S. Ngor, Sam Waterston, Roland Joffe, and Chris Menges during production of THE KILLING FIELDS, 1984
No full textFrom left: Haing S. Ngor, Sam Waterston, director Roland Joffe, and cinematographer Chris Menges during production of THE KILLING FIELDS, 1984. 35mm color slide
ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of a Butyrolactone Precursor of an Algae Nonaether from an Enantiopure Glycol Obtained by Hoppe′s Chemistry.
No full textAchim Menges: Literarische Bildung und gesellschaftliche Modernisierung. Eine Untersuchung über Funktionen der Literatur in der Bildungsarbeit. Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt 2004 (202 S.) [Rezension]
No full textRezension von: Achim Menges: Literarische Bildung und gesellschaftliche Modernisierung. Eine Untersuchung über Funktionen der Literatur in der Bildungsarbeit. Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt 2004 (202 S.; ISBN 3-7815-1320-3; 27,00 EUR)
Synthesis of (4S)-tertbutyl-2(3-diphenylphosphinothiophene-2-yl)-4,5-dihydrooxazole
No full textAmong the various P,N ligands that were investifìgated, heterocyclic phosphino oxazoline derived from thiophene were shown to be highly versatile ligand, easily accessible in two steps from commerciallyt available starting materials
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