Abstract
A reinforced concrete box culvert (RCBC) is a box culvert constructed of reinforced concrete. Because the sudden collapse of an RCBC could result in a serious accident, continuous management and maintenance work of the RCBC should be performed. In this paper, the RCBC chipping robot that is developed as an alternative to skilled construction workers for carrying out the concretechipping work, one of the RCBC maintenance process, is introduced, and the force-regulated impact control for improving quality of the chipping work is described. In order to implement the proposed algorithm, reaction forces when the robot strikes concrete with chipping tool are collected, and classification to identify the striking object and its hardness is carried out based on the obtained reaction forces. In addition, a variable motion control algorithm is realized by setting the dynamic characteristics of the robot with respect to the reaction force according to striking object and its stat. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, chipping work with an RCBC chipping robot is conducted in a simulation environment consisting of reinforced concrete.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 458-463 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| State | Published - 2017 |
| Event | 34th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC 2017 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: 28 Jun 2017 → 1 Jul 2017 |
Conference
| Conference | 34th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC 2017 |
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| Country/Territory | Taiwan, Province of China |
| City | Taipei |
| Period | 28/06/17 → 1/07/17 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Innopolis Technology Commercialization program (Development of a chipping robot on reinforced concrete in covered structures) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning of Korea (2016050010), the preparation of robot industry-cluster program (Practical use of the detection robot for maintenance on Reinforced concrete box culverts) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of Korea (2016090003), and the DGIST R&D Program of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning of Korea (2017010020)
Keywords
- Box culvert maintenance
- Concrete chipping
- Construction robot
- Force-regulated impact control
- Rcbc (reinforced concrete box culvert)