BIM-Integrated Collaborative Robotics for Application in Building Construction and Maintenance
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The application of robotics in construction is hindered by the site environment, which is unstructured and subject to change. At the same time, however, buildings and corresponding sites can be accurately described by Building Information Modeling (BIM). Such a model contains geometric and semantic data about the construction and operation phases of the building and it is already available at the design phase. We propose a method to leverage BIM for simple yet efficient deployment of robotic systems for construction and operation of buildings. With our proposed approach, BIM is used to provide the robot with a priori geometric and semantic information on the environment and to store information on the operation progress. We present two applications that verify the effectiveness of our proposed method. This system represents a step forward towards an easier application of robots in construction.
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Transferring repetitive and dangerous tasks that humans are increasingly reluctant to perform to robots means that automation can help address the labour and skills crisis, and make the construction industry more attractive.
“Transferring repetitive and dangerous tasks that humans are increasingly reluctant to perform to robots means that automation can help address the labour and skills crisis, and make the construction industry more attractive [110,111].”
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The Introduction (page not provided) describes construction tasks as boring, repetitive, and hazardous, identifies low attractiveness as an industry problem, and calls automation promising. It does not say workers are increasingly reluctant to do those tasks or that transferring them to robots will address a labour and skills crisis or make the industry more attractive. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe robot is provided with a priori geometric and semantic information about the environment with the help of the BIM system.
“The robot is provided with a priori geometric and semantic information about the environment with the help of the BIM system.”
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Dzedzickis, A., Subačiūtė-Žemaitienė, J., Šutinys, E., Samukaitė-Bubnienė, U., & Bučinskas, V. (2021) · Applied Sciences · doi:10.3390/app12010135 · Cited by 228 · see citing works
- Authors
- Follini, C., Magnago, V., Freitag, K., Terzer, M., Marcher, C., Riedl, M., Giusti, A., & Matt, D. T.
- Affiliations
- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT)
- Fraunhofer Italia Research (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Follini, Camilla
- ORCID
- Venue
- Robotics
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2020-12-25
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 2
- ISSN
- 2218-6581 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3115159646
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- Robotics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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- Open Research (University of Surrey) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Fraunhofer Internal Programs (Anti-Corona 840241)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › BIM and Construction Integration
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Robot Manipulation and Learning
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Robotics and Automated Systems
- Keywords
- building information modeling, collaborative robotics, construction robotics, building maintenance, robot deployment, construction progress tracking
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