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The use of robots in architectural construction has been a research field since the 1980s. Driven by both productive and creative concerns, different systems have been devised based on large-scale robotic structures, mobile robotic units or flying robotic vehicles. By analyzing these approaches and discussing their advantages and limitations, this paper presents an alternative strategy to automate the building construction processes in on-site scenarios. The SPIDERobot is a cable-robot system developed to perform assembly operations, which is driven by a specific Feedback Dynamic Control System (FDCS) based on a vision system. By describing and illustrating this research work, the authors argue about the advantages of this cable robot system to deal with the complexity and the scale of building construction in architecture.
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This work was developed in the scope of the Research Project with the reference PTDC/ATP-AQI/5124/2012, funded by FEDER funds through the Operational Competitiveness Programme—COMPETE and by national funds through the FCT (Foundation for the Science and Technology).
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Sousa, J.P. et al. (2016). The SPIDERobot: A Cable-Robot System for On-site Construction in Architecture. In: Reinhardt, D., Saunders, R., Burry, J. (eds) Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26378-6_17
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