Intelligent Road Construction Site - Development of Automation into Total Working Process of Finnish Road Construction

Heikkilä, Rauno; Jaakkola, Mika

doi:10.22260/isarc2003/0046

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“…Functionally-assisted control systems have been developed to manipulate grader blades to improve the productivity and efficiency of graders. In [66], a blade control system implemented on a grader for driver-assisted operations in automated road construction, where the 3-D location and position of the blade were continuously measured by a tachometer and several position sensors. Measured data were then compared with a 3-D road geometry model.…”

Section: Graders and Haul Trucksmentioning

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Robotic autonomous systems for earthmoving in military applications

Yen

Balaguer

2019

Automation in Construction

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Along with increasing innovations in frontier engineering sciences, the advancement in Robotic Autonomous Systems (RAS) has brought about a new horizon in earthmoving processes for construction. In the military domain, there is also an increasing interest in utilising RAS technologies. In particular, ground-based forces are frequently called upon to conduct earthmoving tasks as part of military operations, tasks which could be partially or fully aided by the employment of RAS technologies. There have been rapid developments in military construction automation using high-mobility ground-based platforms, human-machine and machine-machine interfaces, teleoperation and control systems, data transmission systems, machine perception and manipulation capabilities, as well as advances in networked robotics and cyberphysical systems. Given these developments it is timely to undertake a comprehensive overview on the topic of interest to the research community and the authority. This paper presents an overview of the RAS development for platform-centric earthworks together with an analysis of the technical feasibility, maturity, key technical challenges, and future directions for the application of RAS technologies to earthmoving tasks of interest to the army. KeywordsMilitary earthmoving; robotic autonomous systems; technology/system readiness; mode of control 2.2.1Perception Robotic perception represents the sensing and data processing required of an autonomous system to acquire and represent knowledge about its environment. That is, to obtain measurements using various appropriate sensors, to extract meaningful information from those measurements, and to represent the environment in the form of a model that can be updated and interrogated.

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Section: Graders and Haul Trucksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robotic autonomous systems for earthmoving in military applications

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Balaguer

2019

Automation in Construction

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“…GIS is an effective tool for asset management because of its ability to integrate spatial and non-spatial data in a centralized database platform with real world geographical coordinates [22]. With the advent of global positioning systems (GPS) and more modern global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), GIS technology has advanced exponentially and is now being used in a plethora of contexts including educational training, AR, and various scientific disciplines [21,[32][33][34][35][36][37]. GPS and GNSS are systems of geosynchronous satellites that orbit the Earth, providing location and time information to millions of users spread across the globe.…”

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“…Many utility owners have switched from computer-aided drafting (CAD) systems to more robust GIS for the creation, storage, and management of their utility information [37]. For example, GIS allows utility owners to have their complete asset inventory archived in a single repository for data extraction, visualization, analysis, and updating information [3].…”

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Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Augmented Reality for Mapping Underground Utilities

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Underground infrastructure is a critical component of the basic utility services provided to society. The single largest threat to the safety of underground utility lines is being struck by construction earthwork projects. One of the causes of this problem is miscommunication between utility owners and contractors. Therefore, it is vitally important to coordinate resources, share information, and ensure efficient communication between construction personnel and utility owners. Geographic information systems (GIS) provide a solution for interoperability in the construction industry. Applying such technologies in the field of underground construction requires accurate and up-to-date information. Augmented reality (AR) has been identified as a technique that could enhance information extraction from the virtual world to the real world and improve the access and utilization of information. However, there is currently limited research that has integrated AR and GIS and evaluated the effectiveness and usability of the combination in this domain. The main objective of this research was to develop an integrated AR-GIS for mapping and capturing underground utilities using a mobile device. The data are shared instantaneously with other stakeholders through a cloud-based system. In order to achieve these objectives, a design research approach was utilized to develop and evaluate a mobile extended-reality (XR-GIS) application. Validation of the XR-GIS was conducted through a focus group discussion and a questionnaire. The results revealed that 86% of the participants validated the system’s adaptivity to the underground construction. We can conclusively say that this research has produced an efficient solution for data collection and sharing among stakeholders in the underground construction industry.

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“…1). At the same time, the work process is a generic model development process in the course of which the original models created out of input data measurements are upgraded, expanded and exploited throughout the operational process (Heikkilä & Jaakkola 2003.…”

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Towards Automated Total Process in Road Construction

Heikkilä¹,

Jaakkola²

2005

Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction

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Information technology can be generally understood as techniques and methods needed for creating, processing, refining, transferring and utilizing information through different working processes of construction. For managing information process different measurement, software, modeling, information communication as well as numeric control technologies are needed on the operational level. A visionary model of automated total process for future road construction is introduced. The main parts of the model have been tested by several different R&D projects carried out in Finland 2001Finland -2004

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Intelligent Road Construction Site - Development of Automation into Total Working Process of Finnish Road Construction

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Robotic autonomous systems for earthmoving in military applications

Robotic autonomous systems for earthmoving in military applications

Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Augmented Reality for Mapping Underground Utilities

Towards Automated Total Process in Road Construction

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