Modular Interior Finishing and Renovation Robot System

Solutions:

The robots were composed by a modular system:
A basic modul, which adopts movement & orientation

Additional work modules, which could be installed on the basic modul

Work modul (drilling & plugging):

Drill machine
Wall drill
Vacuum system
Cross table for exact positioning
Form feed unit

Basic modul (movement & positioning):

Suitable for on-site use track vehiclewith electric motor, barrier detecting sensors, orientation by infrared camera & a system for image data processing

Opreating sequence:

Preparation: Calibration of drilling points, bottom fracturing by chalk line
Crude positioning of the robot by manual control
Robot moves automatically to first drill point along chalk line
Automatic exact positioning
Vertical movement & interlocking to the floor
Drilling
Replacement of the suspending brackets into wall driller & assembling
Lowering, moving to next drilling point

Publications:

Bock, Thomas; Kreupl, Klaus
Procedure for the Implementation of Autonomous Mobile Robots on the Construction Site. - In: ISARC 2004, 21st International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, September 21 - 25, 2004, Jeju, Korea, Proceedings, S. 304-309

Bock, Thomas
Man Machine Systems in Construction Automation and Robotics. - In: Automation als interdisziplinäre Herausforderung, GMA-Kongress, Baden-Baden, 07./08. Juni 2005

Bock, Thomas
Construction robotics. Vol. 22:3 of Autonomous Robots. USA: Springer Science + Business Media, 2007.

Work modul (drilling & plugging):

•Drill machine

•Wall drill

•Vacuum system

•Cross table for exact positioning

Form feed unit