다시 보는 건설현장 '스케일 로봇' VIDEO: Scaled Robotics keeps an autonomous eye on busy construction sites

Scaled Robotics keeps an autonomous eye on busy construction sites

Devin Coldewey@techcrunch / 10:16 pm KST • December 11, 2019

Buildings under construction are a maze of half-completed structures, gantries, stacked materials, and busy workers — tracking what’s going on can be a nightmare. Scaled Robotics has designed a robot that can navigate this chaos and produce 3D progress maps in minutes, precise enough to detect that a beam is just a centimeter or two off.

다시 보는 건설현장 '스케일 로봇'     공사 중인 건물은 미로처럼 반쯤 완성된 구조물, 갠트리, 쌓여 있는 자재, 바쁜 작업자들이 모여 있는 것으로, 무슨 일이 일어나고 있는지 파악하는 것은 악몽일 수 있다. 스케일링 로보틱스는 빔이 1~2cm 정도 떨어져 있음을 감지할 수 있을 정도로 정밀하게 3D 진행 지도를 몇 분 안에 제작할 수 있는 로봇을 설계했다. 건설공사에서의 장애물은 인력과 재료에만 국한되지 않는다. 정확히 무엇을 하고 무엇을 해야 하는지 이해하는 것은 프로젝트를 적절한 시기에 완성하는 데 중요한 부분이지만, 그것은 특별한 훈련과 장비를 필요로 하는 힘든 일이다.  TC 디스럽트 베를린 2019에서 오늘 소개된 특별히 훈련된 장비처럼 스케일드 로보틱스가 보여주 듯  연구팀은 360도 카메라와 맞춤형 리더 시스템을 이용해 주변 환경을 체계적으로 기록하는 등 공사장 주변을 자율적으로 도는 로봇을 만들었다 물체인식시스템은 건설된 벽과 거기에 있는 석고 보드, 전기공사를 위한 계단과 임시계단 사이의 차이를 구별할 수 있게 해준다. 황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터 Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator

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Bottlenecks in construction aren’t limited to manpower and materials. Understanding exactly what’s been done and what needs doing is a critical part of completing a project in good time, but it’s the kind of painstaking work that requires special training and equipment. Or, as Scaled Robotics showed today at TC Disrupt Berlin 2019, specially trained equipment.

The team has created a robot that trundles autonomously around construction sites, using a 360-degree camera and custom lidar system to systematically document its surroundings. An object recognition system allows it to tell the difference between a constructed wall and a piece of sheet rock leaned against it, between a staircase and temporary stairs for electric work, and so on.

By comparing this to a source CAD model of the building, it can paint a very precise picture of the progress being made. They’ve built a special computer vision model that’s suited to the task of sorting obstructions from the constructions and identifying everything in between.

All this information goes into a software backend where the supervisors can check things like which pieces are in place on which floor, whether they have been placed within the required tolerances, or if there are safety issues like too much detritus on the ground in work areas. But it’s not all about making the suits happy.

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“It’s not just about getting management to buy in, you need the guy who’s going to use it every day to buy in. So we’ve made a conscious effort to fit seamlessly into what they do, and they love that aspect of it,” explained co-founder Bharath Sankaran. “You don’t need a computer scientist in the room. Issues get flagged in the morning, and that’s a coffee conversation – here’s the problem, bam, let’s go take a look at it.”

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Digitizing construction sites with Scaled Robotics 

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