FutureHome: An integrated construction automation approach

Balaguer, Carlos; Abderrahim, Mohamed; Navarro, José María Martínez; Boudjabeur, Samir; Aromaa, P.; Kähkönen, Kalle; Slavenburg, S.; Seward, Derek; Bock, T.; Wing, R.; Atkin, Brian

doi:10.1109/100.993155

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“…This requires some degree of transportability and agility from the robotic system to navigate in a multi-floor environment. All these challenges have motivated researchers over the years, to design numerous robotic systems that can operate within such environment for a variety of applications (Arai et al 1988;Albus et al 1993;Miyatake et al 1993;Balaguer et al 2002;Lytle and Saidi 2007;Bock 2007;Helm et al 2012;Feng et al 2015). Developing such systems requires the designer to consider a variety of design considerations that ranges from the robot's payload, reachable workspace, placement, model, and localization approach to perform the task.…”

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An agile robotic system mounted on scaffold structures for on-site construction work

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This paper presents our effort in developing an agile robotic system for general in situ construction work of large-scale structures. The robotic system comprises of a lightweight industrial robot mounted on a specially designed robot platform capable of being quickly integrated into available scaffold structures. The current prototype weighs less than 50 kg, making it portable and easily carried around by two persons. Furthermore, by making use of the scaffold structures commonly found around the construction site as its foundation, the robotic system requires very little additional setup and would be capable of entering work areas in the construction site which were previously only accessible by human. The key design components which make up the agile robotic system are discussed in detail in this paper. Optimization of some design variables was also performed to reduce the anticipated deflection of the supporting scaffold pipes based on a derived analytical beam flexion model. Finally, actual experiments were carried out to verify the theoretical model and the viability of the proposed agile robotic system.

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An agile robotic system mounted on scaffold structures for on-site construction work

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“…While the number of industrial robots is counted in hundreds of thousands the number of robots in the construction industry is counted in hundreds only. Important efforts have been made to adapt the CIM concept to the construction industry created the Computer Integrated Construction (CIC) (Miyatake & Kangari, 1993) (Balaguer et al 2002). Unfortunately, this effort has better results only in the 40 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000* …”

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confidence: 99%

“…The EU FutureHome projects develop the AUTOMOD3 system (Fig. 14) that integrates in a common CAD environment several tools like design, planning and automatic robot and machine programming (Balaguer et al, 2002). Due the high level of conservatism of building designers, the main idea is to use the common 2D architectural design (drawings) and automatically transform it into 3D drawings.…”

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Trends in Robotics and Automation in Construction

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Robotics and Automation in Construction

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“…The microcontroller is families to use on-chip flash memory for program storage, as opposed to OneTime Programmable ROM, EPROM, or EEPROM used by other microcontrollers at the time [6]. Low power, high performance microcontrollers handle demanding 8 and 16-bit applications.…”

Section: Control Componentsmentioning

confidence: 99%