A human-robot cooperative system helps out with glass panels in construction

Building materials and components are much larger and heavier than many industrial materials. Glass panel is a type of building material for interior finishing. The demand for larger glass panel has increased along with the number of high-rise buildings and an increased interest in interior design. The objective of The study is to introduce robotic technology for installing glass panel on construction site. Robotically installed glass panel is receiving special attention became of the difficulties in moving to high installation positions and handling fragile building materials. The human-robot cooperative system can cope with various and untypical constructing environment through the real-time interacting with a human, robot and constructing environment simultaneously. Therefore, a human can feel and response the force reflected from robot end effecter acting with working environment. After analyzing a target project, we establish a design concept for a proposed system. Finally, we describe the prototype of the system.