Open Issues and Future Possibilities in the EU Construction Automation

Balaguer, Carlos

doi:10.22260/isarc2000/0048

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Warsawzki and Navon [3] lamented the failure of the diffusion of robotics in the 1990s in spite of early promising research efforts and cited the following reasons to be its cause: current building and construction practices not being amenable to performance by robots; insufficient development of construction robots to deal with site conditions; the lack of economic justification of robots; and the managerial environment in the construction industry. This sentiment was shared by Balaguer [11] who concluded that the industry still operates by the same philosophy as from the pre-industrial era, the only major advancements being the use of motors to apply force and the replacement of human and animal power with machines to do the same work while manual control, visual feedback, human operators, etc. still play a vital role in construction.…”

Section: Current State Of the Art And Trends In Construction Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modified Discrete Event Simulation Algorithm for Control of Automated Construction Operations

Louis

Dunston

2014

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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-Few robots are found on the worksite today and the construction process has remained unchanged since pre-industrial times, the only major advancement being the replacement of human and animal power with motors, despite research efforts in construction automation. Contrarily, the planning stages of projects have benefited from advances in simulation and modeling technologies. We propose a mechanism for leveraging information rich models to automate construction operations by using Discrete Event Simulation (DES) models of operations to drive the process in the real world using autonomous robots. This endeavour requires a new method to process DES models as they are currently used for the fundamentally different task of analyzing operations. Technically, this method is necessitated by the fact that activity durations are not known apriori when the DES model is controlling a real world operation. We put forth a novel algorithm for processing DES that enables construction automation. Our lack of prior knowledge of activity durations are accounted for by assuming that initiated activities continue until pre-empted to a stop by communication from the autonomous robot performing it. The primary contribution of our presented research is enabling the unprecedented use of DES models for construction automation. This approach allows for the automation of any construction operation, given the application breadth of DES. This modeling approach also enables new construction visualization techniques with the use of robot simulators that free up the operation modeler from consideration of low level equipment and geometric details and from the collection of activity duration data.

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Section: Current State Of the Art And Trends In Construction Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modified Discrete Event Simulation Algorithm for Control of Automated Construction Operations

Louis

Dunston

2014

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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“…Automation of tasks may be included within a larger system or be carried out by only one machine. In this case, these machines areconsidered construction robots [3].…”

Section: Automatization and Robotization In Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robotized Lean Assembly in the Building Industry

Martinez¹,

Balaguer²,

Jardon³

et al. 2008

ISARC 2008 - Proceedings From the 25th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction

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The construction is probably one of the oldest industries that exist nowadays. The processes and techniques used today are basically the same since ancient times. The main difference is the level of mechanization used in the tasks execution and materials used. What seems obvious is the fact that building industry has continuously evolved towards mechanization. This evolution has experimented an enhancement in the last few years. Robotization and automation of the building processes start to be applied not only off site but on site. In this way, using concepts as DFMA and Lean Assembly, products can be developed for their assembly by robotics systems on site. In order to apply these concepts one product has been selected (the Service Core). This paper presents the starting point of the automatization process: the analysis of the traditional assembly of the module. *-this work is funding by the EU 6FP ManuBuild project

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“…The significant change that this work wants to introduce is the user-in-the-loop philosophy in building construction, from design to the final cycle of life of the building [1]. In this way, the user can take part in all the stages of the process to get a final product according to his/here preferences.…”

Section: User-in-the-loopmentioning

confidence: 99%

User-In-The-Loop: Building Templates for Customized Social Housing

Martínez¹,

Montoiro²,

Núñez³

et al. 2007

Automation and Robotics in Construction &Amp;#8213; Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics

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The objective of this paper is to show how the end user can be involved into the whole building process, specifically in social housing. Therefore, the end users preferences are taken into account in order to increase their satisfaction on the product. The first step consists on obtaining the user preferences by means of an enquiry file (http://mbserver.uc3m.es/encuesta.htm). There are about 2.000 surveys fulfilled up today. The results are analyzed in order to classify users into groups with similar features and family composition. Due to the social housing promotion laws, several building templates are produced as a parallel development. The obtained groups are matched with the pre-existing building templates that fit as best as possible with the users' preferences. After this matching, each final user is awarded with the correspondent social dwelling. This is the starting point for the process of the detailed design and configuration of the dwelling by the user. One common web portal enables the use of the design and configuration tools.

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Open Issues and Future Possibilities in the EU Construction Automation

Cited by 19 publications

References 25 publications

Modified Discrete Event Simulation Algorithm for Control of Automated Construction Operations

Modified Discrete Event Simulation Algorithm for Control of Automated Construction Operations

Robotized Lean Assembly in the Building Industry

User-In-The-Loop: Building Templates for Customized Social Housing

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