Development of a Fireproof Insulation Spray Robot System

This report describes the summary of the development of the fireproof insulation spray robot No.1 system in 1991, as an example of promoting the automation of architectural work by taking advantage of a wide-use type industrial robot. This was reported at the 9th International Construction Robot Symposium in 1992. The research and development activities have been continuing and the No.3 system was developed by making various improvements to the No.1 system and it is now being applied to the all-weather type building automatic construction system. The system is composed of two major devices, which are as follows: 1) Fireproof insulation spray robot, and 2) Remote control type fully-automated plant. The aim of this thesis, is to describe the positioning of the above system in the all-weather type building automatic construction system, the details of the development from the NO.1 machine, through to the NO.2 machine and to the NO.3 machine. Also, the special features of the system, the details of each constituting device, the composition of the software and the results of the execution, will be described. In addition there is discussion of the possibility of applying the wide-use type industrial robot to the construction site.