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Notional study of possible plant/braid configurations with plant growth steered through braid – partial cover.

Notional study of possible plant/braid configurations with plant growth steered through braid – full cover.

Complex braid morphology conforming to principles of manufacture – study 1.

Complex braid morphology conforming to principles of manufacture – study 2.

Study of complex braid morphology.

Study of mesh relaxation on a dodecahedral geometry

Braid representation studies – voxel/tiling approach

Representation of challenging braid conditions is evaluated by visual
comparison to physically braided artefacts.

Flowering Lonicera grown within a braid cavity, late summer 2016

Young Lonicera planted within braid cavity, early Spring 2016.

Testing of braid actuation (extension) through Banana plant growth.

Fallopia Aubertii  &  Lonicera ‘Henry’ growing on flat braids to examine progressive braid stiffening through plant growth.

Prototype robotic node

Robotic node within the Plant Binary Decision Wall demonstrator

Developing a taxanomy of braids.

Braid bifurcations

Mechanical force measurement of braid actuation.

Increased complexity of braid morphologies.

Transpiration, water flow and CO2 sensing.

Real-time monitoring of plant sensing channels.

A distributed vascular morphogenesis controller for growing artificial structures.

The distributed vascular controller operating on Thymio robots and in simulation.

Simulated outcomes of the distributed vascular controller.

Simulated outcome of the distributed vascular controller.

Growing Arabidopsis in an engineered PET braid.

Arabidopsis/Braid after two weeks growth

Swarm braiding with five Thymio robots running a Braitenberg avoidance routine, and detail of resulting unstructured braid

Swarm Braiding simulation