Abstract
Steel frame construction in high places entails many risk factors. In order to improve the safety and productivity of steel frame construction, a project to develop a robotic tower-crane has been undertaken. As the first step, a real-time lifting-path tracking system is being developed. In a previous study, a laser-based tracking system was proposed. While a laser-based tracking system requires at least three laser sensors to detect the x, y, z coordinates of a lifted steel member, a GPS-based system has an advantage over the laser-based system, in that the x, y, z coordinates of a lifted steel member can be detected by a single GPS sensor. To improve the accuracy, arelative positioning method using two GPS sensors was proposed in a previous study. This paper reports an improved GPS-based lifting-path tracking system of a tower crane based on an integrated RF modem and GPS system. The results showedthat the RF modem could successfully send the identifier information to a server a maximum distance of 1 km away from the lifted steel beam, and the lifting path information of each beam captured by the GPS-based tracking system was successfully saved together. Also, byusing an improved algorithm for the GPS relative positioning method, the deviation was reduced to 0.61 m on average.
철골공사는 고소에서 작업을 하며 많은 위험요소가 따르며, 안전성과 생산성을 향상시키기 위해 로보틱 크레인개발을 위한 프로젝트가 진행되었다. 그 첫 번째 단계로서 실시간 양중위치를 추적하는 시스템을 개발하였는데, 본 연구에서는 이를 위하여 x, y, z 좌표를 쉽게 얻을 수 있는 GPS 센서를 사용하였다. 또한, 본 연구에서는 데이터의 정확도를 향상시키기 위해 2대의 GPS센서를 사용하였으며, RF모뎀을 이용한 무선인식 태그와 함께 통합된 양중경로 추적 시스템을 개발하였다. 개발된 무선인식 태그와 RF모뎀 기반의 GPS 센서는 함께 최대 1 km까지 안정적으로 신호를 전송할 수 있으며, GPS의 상대측위기법을 사용하여 그 오차를 평균 0.61 m까지 줄일 수 있다.
