Currently, automation is becoming more important to industry, and soon, construction work may be completed by robots. In the construction industry a large amount of resources are used to erect buildings. Increasing automation will help this problem by decreasing the project's time and overall cost. This report presents a design to automate construction using two systems that autonomously build structures. Each system is simple and works with the other to achieve a complex task beyond either's individual ability. The first system is a distributed control and guidance scaffolding that acts as both the physical support and source of instructions. The other is a mobile builder robot that incrementally adds new scaffolding and building blocks to build the required structures.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Cormier, Christopher
• Willgress, Connor M
• Beeten, Nathan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042618-111021

Advisor

• Pinciroli, Carlo
• Onal, Cagdas

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-04-26

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Robotics Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-02-01