Robot Oriented Design
Short description
Since early times mankind invented tools in order to save time and
efforts.
Those new tools resulted in new processes and products. The steam
engine triggered an industrial revolution in factories and mobility.
The automobile unfolded its customizable mobility when it became more
than just a horse carriage fitted with a combustion engine and when it
became a ubiquitous vehicle through the road network. When the first
construction robots were developed in Japan they copied typical tasks
of construction workers, but the advantage of construction robots was
unfolded not before the perimeters in construction such as management,
planning, design, detailing, logistics, training, education, quality,
attitude, skills, formation, business relations etc. adjusted to the
new tool of the construction robot. The notion of ROD or Robot Oriented
Design supports not only the efficient use of construction robots, but
also helps to improve the productivity, efficiency, and quality of
conventional construction methods.
ICT, micro system technology, automation, mechatronics, robotics and
other technologies increase the value added in all industrial sectors
and lead to innovation of traditional sectors. In the construction
sector, new technologies are being applied in production of buildings
as well as their lifecycle management. The Module Robot Oriented Design
is dealing with the transformation of the construction sector by
robotics and other new technologies. The goal of ROD is a new kind of
design approach applying methods, strategies such as complex relations
between programming, conception, implementing, standardizing,
modularization, industrialization, assembly, disassembly,
reconfiguration, upgrading etc. of built environment. ROD aims at
increasing the resource efficiency and performance of any construction
or building product or process through the whole life cycle by advanced
robotics. In order to achieve this new management, production and
product strategies are required.
Content
Automation and robot oriented design (Processes, manufacturing):
Life cycle design(Building performance):