“Computational Civil Engineering - "Intersections" International Journal

254 F. Paulet-Crainiceanurequirements of the general system, the whole structure. Therefore the device musthave its self-controlled system.F a (t)rotational actuatorgirderM a (t)girderF a (t)columnlinear actuatorAction throughActive ForcescolumnAction throughActive MomentsFig.8 Structural Active Hinges development, SAHA structure will then consist in a series of substructures interconnected with jointsas those in Figure 8. In this case the structure becomes robotic [1].Going further, the degree of autonomy of the structure can go until the idea that astructure can even move in case of danger in a better place (quite easy to image inouter-space).Such structure is not only robotic but it is also robotized, i.e. robots should developand maintain it.Intervention of humans will surely be almost avoided. There are multiple reasonsto support this idea. Mainly the high cost of humans' labor (eventually in outerspace)and danger are relevant.In the future, the knowledge in structures' planning, designing, constructing, andmanaging will be huge. Only automatic work will be efficient in doing all thesetasks. Coordination of the work must be also automatic.The main needs of the society will be withdrawn from global databases and,therefore, the artificial intelligence brains will launch the project for a new robotstructure.Planning and designing shall take care of all the necessary steps for future actions.Robots will build robotic structures based on a design flexible in terms ofconceptions and adaptable to the latest findings in the field or related fields ofactivity. The final structure will never be a "final" structure because it will be selfadaptableand self-developing as a function of the changes in structures' loads,functions, or natural environment.