Autonomous Construction Site Robot - COSCR
Project Summary:
| Project Name: COSCR (Collaborative, On-Site Construction Robot) | |
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| Budget: £601,823 | Funded by: Innovate UK (Ref. 104606) |
| Project Partners: InnoTecUK, HAL robotics, BRE., Skanska, ABB, Skyjack UK | |
| Project period: Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 | |
Project description:
The COSCR project aims to bring a novel solution to the construction industry – a fully autonomous mobile robot with an integrated lifter and robotic arm able to perform works at height, especially drilling holes in the underside of concrete floor slabs to enable fixings for services and suspended ceilings. This is repetitive, labour intensive task has significant H&S implications for workers and presents a significant, global market for robotic solutions.
In addition to this the project aims to be able to safely work in close proximity with humans in a dynamic environment as well as link to BIM (Building Information Modelling) system to enable autonomous working directly from CAD.
Rendering of the COSCR Robot (left) and picture of robot on construction site (right).
COSCR Promo video.
COSCR drilling test video.
Personal Role within project:
- Project technical lead/coordinator within InnoTecUK to coordinate efforts of mechanical, electronics and software teams
- Defining the overall software architecture
- Development of Gazebo based simulation
- Development and tuning of the ROS based autonomous localisation and path planning software stack
- Designed and carried out of test to validate built system