- Author
- Kamat, V. R. | Lipman, R. R.
- Title
- Standard Product Models for Supporting Automated Erection of Structural Steelwork.
- Coporate
- Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
- Book or Conf
- International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2006). Proceedings. October 3-5, 2006, Tokyo, Japan, 1-6 p., 2006
- Keywords
- structural steelwork | automation | emulation | steel members | structures | construction
- Identifiers
- structure of the CIS/2 data model; extraction of steel shape geometry; extraction of steel shape posiion and orientation; modifying extracted CIS/2 data to support automation
- Abstract
- A piece of automation equipment such as a robotic crane for steel erection has no intrinsic knowledge of the process it automates. Thus, geometric and spatial information about a component such as a steel member, and the motion sequences that must be executed to move that component from a staging area to its installed final location must both be programmed into the equipment. In automated steel construction, the position and orientation of steel members in a temporary staging area is project and site dependent, and thus cannot be automatically determined beforehand. The final in-place spatial configuration (position and orientation) of a steel member, however, can be conceptually extracted automatically from a product model of the structure being erected. The presented research evaluates this hypothesis and investigates the extent to which the CIMsteel Integration Standards (CIS/2) can specify product descriptions capable of supporting automated erection of structural steelwork.