Development of a Novel Post-Construction Quality Assessment Robot System

TY - GEN

T1 - Development of a Novel Post-Construction Quality Assessment Robot System

AU - Yan, Rui-Jun

AU - Leong Low, Chin

AU - Duan, Jinjun

AU - Liu, Lili

AU - Kayacan, Erdal

AU - Chen, I-Meng

AU - Tiong, Robert

PY - 2017/1/31

Y1 - 2017/1/31

N2 - Utilizing construction quality standards for almost perfect building projects ensures future marketability of projects, customer satisfaction and maximization of asset value. This paper describes a novel robot system to autonomously assess the post-construction quality of buildings which is currently done manually by using human inspectors. However, manual inspection always has the disadvantages, such as labile inspection accuracy, being time consuming and indistinct recording. As a novel solution to the aforementioned drawbacks, a mobile robot is equipped with a laser scanner, a thermal camera, an inclinometer and a RGB camera to achieve an autonomous assessment system. This proposed system can assess five types of defects: evenness, alignment, cracks, hollowness, and inclination. A movable trolley with different mechanisms are designed to mount and integrate all these sensors. Its mechanical design with four motors and one linear actuator, which are installed to increase the measurement range of sensors, is also presented. The experimental tests show that the proposed system has a great potential in construction quality assessment area in building sector.

AB - Utilizing construction quality standards for almost perfect building projects ensures future marketability of projects, customer satisfaction and maximization of asset value. This paper describes a novel robot system to autonomously assess the post-construction quality of buildings which is currently done manually by using human inspectors. However, manual inspection always has the disadvantages, such as labile inspection accuracy, being time consuming and indistinct recording. As a novel solution to the aforementioned drawbacks, a mobile robot is equipped with a laser scanner, a thermal camera, an inclinometer and a RGB camera to achieve an autonomous assessment system. This proposed system can assess five types of defects: evenness, alignment, cracks, hollowness, and inclination. A movable trolley with different mechanisms are designed to mount and integrate all these sensors. Its mechanical design with four motors and one linear actuator, which are installed to increase the measurement range of sensors, is also presented. The experimental tests show that the proposed system has a great potential in construction quality assessment area in building sector.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015212848&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838741

DO - 10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838741

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-5090-3549-6

SP - 1

EP - 6

BT - 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2016

PB - IEEE

T2 - 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision

Y2 - 13 November 2016 through 15 November 2016

ER -