SS23 - Talk 4: Dr. Yijian Huang

Talk#4 of our Seminar Series featuring Yijiang Huang, a Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich, on the intersection between Architecture, Computing, and Robotics in design and construction. Yijiang's expertise lies in the computational design of construction, where he focuses on developing scalable planning methods to coordinate humans, robots, and resources for sustainable design outcomes.

In this talk, Yijiang will discuss the limitations of current construction processes and the potential of automated planning to revolutionize the industry. He will present his research on automated planning approaches that enable the programming of robot builders and efficient resource allocation. Yijiang will showcase how these approaches enhance design-build flexibility, facilitate robotic assembly of arbitrary design inputs, reduce programming efforts for new robot fabrication processes, and enable design responsiveness to upcycled material inventory.