Publications / 2024 Proceedings of the 41st ISARC, Lille, France
48% of total energy consumption in Europe is used in buildings and homes. These are therefore accountable for 35% of Europe's total CO2 emissions.
To solve this problem in a sustainable way, the building stock would have to be thermally refurbished further. Currently, the annual thermal refurbishment rate is only 1% of the total building stock, but the sector is already at its production limit. One reason for this is the ongoing shortage of skilled labour. Robotic systems can help here. In collaboration with Fundermax GmbH, St. Veit/Glan, Austria, and KUKA AG, Augsburg, a concept was developed for a (semi-) automated assembly platform that relieves workers of the task of assembling heavy façade panels. Systems that have already been developed are dependent on a complicated setup. This makes it very difficult to use these systems on the construction site.
This research project investigates how existing processes can be expanded so that the threshold for using robotic systems on the construction site can be lowered further. To this end, this work analyses existing processes, derives a concept and then evaluates it using simulations.