AI utilization for membrane structure design and manufacturing

Abstract

Membrane structure is the space structure that is composed from clothes, cables and steel frames and so on. In this study, we are developing a management system that is automatically estimation and manufacturing process for membrane structures, then do verification with real job solutions. Though membrane surface has 3D curvature, it is composed from flat (2D) cloth parts which are cut out from the roll of cloth. The roll width is about 1 – 4 meters width, it varies depending on each cloth material. The process of 3D->2D has many complex judgements and it is difficult to achieve good accuracy as estimation system. Therefore AI algorithms are tried to use to estimation system for accuracy improvement.