RoMA: Interactive Fabrication with Augmented Reality and a Robotic 3D Printer
summary
RoMA is an AR-guided fabrication system that lets a designer edit a model with an Oculus Rift with stereo camera while a 6‑axis robotic 3D printer extrudes plastic into the same volume. A proxemics-inspired handshake uses a touch sensor and three designer zones on a rotating platform designer/robot zones to interrupt or hand control to the robot; force sensors and multi‑channel air cooling prevent crashes and support quick wireframe printing. Calibration tracks about six coordinate frames; simple scan‑edit‑print cycles run in roughly two minutes but prints are low‑fidelity with flyaway strands requiring trimming.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to RoMA
- 1:50Live design and printing demo
- 4:59Related work in interactive fabrication
- 7:03Key innovations of RoMA
- 8:51Designing on existing objects
- 10:18Proxemics-based interaction
- 13:12System hardware overview
- 14:56Software pipeline explained
- 15:59Limitations and future work
- 17:03Closing and acknowledgments
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