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DiffCheck: A scan-CAD evaluation tool for digital manufacturing and assembly processes in timber construction

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Stefana Parascho

In digital timber construction, scanning technologies and point cloud data are widely used due to the accessibility of affordable 3D sensors, photogrammetry, and userfriendly CAD tools. While typically not employed for accuracy checks in timber fabrication ...

CRC Press2025

Design method for roundwood construction using database of trees

Yves Weinand

In today's shift from steel and concrete construction toward bio-based materials such as timber, reliance on forests for construction materials is growing. However, concerns are rising regarding the type and amount of wood our forests will produce in the f ...

CRC Press2025

TTool: A Supervised Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Visual Pose Detector for Tool Heads in Augmented Reality Woodworking

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Florian Aymanns, Naravich Chutisilp

We present TimberTool (TTool v2.1.1), a software designed for woodworking tasks assisted by augmented reality (AR), emphasizing its essential function of the real-time localization of a tool head’s poses within camera frames. The localization process, a fu ...

2024

TSLAM: a tag-based object-centered monocular navigation system for augmented manual woodworking

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Hong-Bin Yang

TimberSLAM (TSLAM) is an object-centered, tag-based visual self-localization and mapping (SLAM) system for monocular RGB cameras. It was specifically developed to support a robust and augmented reality pipeline for close-range, noisy, and cluttered fabrica ...

2024

Supplementary material for "Augmented Carpentry: a Computer Vision-based Assistance for Manual Saw-cutting and Drilling in Timber Construction"

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi

The present data set has been used to evaluate timber artifacts produced with AR-assisted fabrication methods. ...

Zenodo2024

Evaluation date as support material for diffCheck publication icsa 2025

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Stefana Parascho

This dataset contains the data, pipelines (in the form of .ghx files) and numerical results of the evaluation of diffCheck, an open-source scan-to-CAD comparison plugin for Rhino3D. The dataset is divided into two main compressed folders: Additive and `S ...

Zenodo2024

Flexural behavior of digitally-fabricated Through-Tenon connections under bending moments

Yves Weinand

The implementation of engineered mass timber products in construction and the proliferation of computer numerical control machinery, as a technically feasible and economically justifiable fabrication technique, have given rise to new methods of constructio ...

2024

Les Cahiers de l'Ibois 4 / Ibois Notebooks 4

Yves Weinand, Sarah Nichols

EPFL Press2024

The influence of wood surface treatments with different biomolecules on dry and wet strength of linear friction welded joints

Yves Weinand

The moisture resistance of friction-welded wood joints can be improved by applying bio-based bonding additives. Several biomolecules including tannic acid, organosolv lignin from hardwood, kraft lignin from softwood, and derivates thereof, were investigate ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023

Geometrical digital twins of the as-built microstructure of three-leaf stone masonry walls with laser scanning

Yves Weinand, Katrin Beyer, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Savvas Saloustros, Andrea Cabriada Ascencio

Research on irregular stone masonry walls is hampered by the lack of detailed geometrical models of their internal micro-structure, i.e. the shape and size of each stone and its position within the wall. Without such a geometric digital twin of walls teste ...

2023

Digital twins of wooden shingle envelopes

Yves Weinand, Farzaneh Eskandari

Wooden shingles have long been used as a vernacular roofing technique in many well-wooded areas. Despite the fact that shingles, as local raw materials, are low in embodied energy, nowadays they are not much used in construction, as the specific craft know ...

2023

Projector-based augmented stacking framework for irregularly shaped objects

Yves Weinand, Katrin Beyer, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Qianqing Wang, Edward Carlo Giorgio Andò

Augmented reality in additive fabrication is predominantly applied to the manufacturing of structures from regularly shaped materials. Our work however embraces natural heterogeneity, by focusing on the assembly of irregularly shaped elements such as miner ...

2023

Design considerations for robotically assembled through-tenon timber joints

Pierre Latteur, Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau

This research investigates the robotic assembly of timber structures connected by wood–wood connections. As the digitization of the timber construction sector progresses, digital tools, such as industrial robotic arms and Computer Numerical Control machine ...

2022

A Collaborative Workflow to Automate the Design, Analysis, and Construction of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures

Pierre Latteur, Yves Weinand, Aryan Rezaei Rad, Petras Vestartas, Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau

This paper introduces a computational framework that fosters collaboration between architects, engineers, and contractors by bridging the gap between architectural design, structural analysis, and digital construction. The present research is oriented towa ...

CAADRIA2022

Cockroach: an open-source tool for point cloud processing in cad

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Petras Vestartas

In the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector, the use of point cloud data is not a novelty. Usually employed to retrieve data for inspecting construction sites or retrofitting pre-existing buildings, sensors like LiDAR cameras have been k ...

Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)2022

Augmented-reality-assisted timber drilling with smart retrofitted tools

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi

An ordinary electric drill was integrated into a context-aware augmented reality (AR) framework to assist in timber-drilling tasks. This study is a preliminary evaluation to detail technical challenges, potential bottlenecks, and accuracy of the proposed o ...

2022

Les Cahiers de l'Ibois 2 / Ibois Notebooks 2

Yves Weinand

The second Ibois Notebook focuses its reflections on the Grand-Chalet station project in Rossinière. Christophe Catsaros and Tadashi Ono carry out a landscape analysis in text and image around the idea of a revival of the alpine vernacular. Isabel Concheir ...

EPFL PRESS2021

Macro Modeling Technique for Integrally-Attached Timber Plates: Sensitivity Analysis

Yves Weinand, Aryan Rezaei Rad, Henry V. Burton

Using the Integral Mechanical Attachment (IMA) technique, a new macroscopic model has recently been introduced to simulate the structural behavior of segmented timber plates. The macro model is based on employing only beam and spring elements, which aims t ...

2021

An integrated design tool for timber plate structures to generate joints geometry, fabrication toolpath, and robot trajectories

Pierre Latteur, Yves Weinand, Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau

This paper presents an integrated design tool for structures composed of engineered timber panels that are connected by traditional wood joints. Recent advances in computational architecture have permitted to automate the fabrication and assembly of such s ...

2021

Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures

Yves Weinand

Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures outlines a new design methodology for digitally fabricated spatial timber plate structures, presented with examples from recent construction projects. It proposes an innovative and sustainable design me ...

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 20222021