TY - GEN
T1 - REALIZABILITY AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR COLLABORATIVE LARGE-SCALE MOBILE PLATFORM 3-D PRINTING ROBOTS
AU - Hu, Henry
AU - Norris, William R.
AU - Soylemezoglu, Ahmet
AU - Nottage, Dustin
AU - Patterson, Albert E.
N1 - The authors gratefully acknowledge the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory for their review and approval of the final manuscript and financial support under contract award number W9132T23C0013.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Large-scale autonomous construction systems (ACSs) have become an important area of technology development in research years. Several areas remain to be comprehensively studied, including the design of both the construction equipment and final products, the science behind the materials used, system architecture, major applications (such space exploration, local disaster recovery, and expeditionary operations), and the realizability of the system. The realizability (manufacturability, assembly, and integration) of the system components is the most important of these at this point in the technology development, as it drives the feasibility and decision-making of the technology and enables the major applications. This article explores the realizability and system architecture of an ACS based on a large-scale collaborative autonomous robot (assumed to be a robotic arm) mounted in a mobile platform (such as a Warthog). The basic system configuration, the interfaces, and the realizability requirements driven by a formal concept-of-operations (CONOPS) diagram and known/designed system architecture. This work will be helpful in the further development, refinement, and application of this and similar systems by showing the major system architecture and formalizing the requirements for developing the system.
AB - Large-scale autonomous construction systems (ACSs) have become an important area of technology development in research years. Several areas remain to be comprehensively studied, including the design of both the construction equipment and final products, the science behind the materials used, system architecture, major applications (such space exploration, local disaster recovery, and expeditionary operations), and the realizability of the system. The realizability (manufacturability, assembly, and integration) of the system components is the most important of these at this point in the technology development, as it drives the feasibility and decision-making of the technology and enables the major applications. This article explores the realizability and system architecture of an ACS based on a large-scale collaborative autonomous robot (assumed to be a robotic arm) mounted in a mobile platform (such as a Warthog). The basic system configuration, the interfaces, and the realizability requirements driven by a formal concept-of-operations (CONOPS) diagram and known/designed system architecture. This work will be helpful in the further development, refinement, and application of this and similar systems by showing the major system architecture and formalizing the requirements for developing the system.
KW - Concrete printing
KW - robotic construction
KW - system realizability
KW - systems engineering
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2024-139235
DO - 10.1115/DETC2024-139235
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85210602549
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 29th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference (DFMLC)
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC-CIE 2024
Y2 - 25 August 2024 through 28 August 2024
ER -