Task-instruction for autonomous construction robots
conference paper
The building industry is urged to improve its production processes on different aspects. Building is to become: less expensive, more qualitative, less damaging to the environment and less exhaustive for construction workers. The use of robot technology is one of the possibilities that can be used to improve production on these aspects. However the current commercial robots have short comings that make them difficult or impossible to use in today's construction processes. One of the problems is the programming of robots. Because of the lack of repetition in construction processes, robot programs are often single use programs that have to be rewritten for each robot task. The costs of robot programming using today's programming methods are too high. This paper describes how an approach called task instruction can be used for construction robots. Task instructions are high level building instruction such as 'build garage' or 'spray ceiling coating'. The hypothesis is that robot operation plans can be generated from generic task knowledge together with project specific design and engineering information. However this requires certain levels of standardisation of building tasks and storage of information
TNO Identifier
330709
Source title
Proceedings of the AIO Congress, Elspeet, The Netherlands, 25-26 April
Pages
153-162
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