Publications / 1992 Proceedings of the 9th ISARC, Tokyo, Japan

Masonry Construction by an Experimantal Robot

Denis Chamberlain, Seshagiri Ala, James Watson, John Reilly and Philip Speare
Pages 573-582 (1992 Proceedings of the 9th ISARC, Tokyo, Japan, ISSN 2413-5844)
Abstract:

Masonry is an important, traditional and conservative aspect of UK building activity. This mainly involves the use of bonded brick and block units which have significant dimensional tolerances and are easily damaged. Taking these factors into account, automation of masonry construction cannot be interpreted as being a simple pick and place operation. Quality control of the supply material must be included, and assembly performed on an intelligent basis. Though lacking performance speed, satisfactory damage detecting image processing algorithms have been established as part of the quality control provision and a high level programming approach has been adopted towards the provision of machine intelligence. Dry wall constructions have been made by the experimental masonry building robot which on completion will also perform bonded construction.

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