• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.336-343
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• 2022

Industrial robotic arms are widely adopted in numerous industries for manufacturing automation under factory settings, which eliminates the limitations of manual labor and provides significant productivity and quality benefits. The U.S. modular construction industry, despite having similar controlled factory environments, still heavily relies on manual labor. Thus, this study investigates the U.S., Canada, and Europe-based leading modular construction companies and research labs implementing industrial robotic arms for manufacturing automation. The investigation mainly considered the current research scope, industry state, and constraints, as well as identifying the types and specifications of the robotic arms in use. First, the study investigated well-recognized modular building associations, the Modular Building Institute (MBI), and renowned architecture design magazine, Dezeen to gather industry updates. The authors discovered one university lab and a few companies that adopted Switzerland-based robotic arms, ABB. Researching ABB robotics led to the discovery of ABB's competitor, Germany-based KUKA robotic arms. Consequently, research extended to the companies and labs adopting KUKA models. In total, this study has identified seven modular companies and four research labs. All companies employed robotic arms and gantry robot combinations in a production-line-like system for partial automation, and some adopted design standardization for optimization. The common goal among the labs was to achieve greater flexibility and full automation with robotic arms. This study will help companies better implement robotic arm automation by providing recommendations from investigating its current industry status.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2008년도 추계 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.213-218
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• 2008

Recently automatic construction system is attended in construction domains because of the increase of aged workers and the shortage of the experienced. The research level of automatic construction system in Korea will soon attain to the stage of full automation like Japan, which is the highest level in the world. However, in the fully automated level, it is difficult for the automatic system to operate flexibly like the human in various work condition. In the result, the higher the level of automation in the system is, the less efficient the automatic system work in the site. So, it's necessary the development material design to compensate for the flexibility shortage of the system. Therefore, this study proposes the development process to material design suitable for automatic construction system using QFD technique.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2009년도 춘계 학술논문 발표대회 학계
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• pp.1-4
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• 2009

Construction automation and robotics are being introduced as an efficient alternative to overcome troubles caused by lack of skilled labors. To accomplish effective automated construction system, design for automation(DFA) should be performed in parallel with the development of core technologies such as control and sensing of robots. In Korea, the development of robotic crane-based construction automation(RCA) system is progressing, and the research group has recently developed newly designed steel joint to improve the efficiency of the system. However, performance of the new system should be examined prior to its application on construction sites. Therefore, This study analyzed performance of the new steel frame focused on its constructibility by carrying out mock-up test. As a result, the steel frame satisfied the standards of allowable stress and deflection. It also enables to reduce the time for installation.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 3th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1075-1080
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• 2009

Recently, the building construction industry has been forced to cope with lack of skilled labor. A robot-based construction automation system should help overcome crucial troubles which may be caused by this phenomenon. In particular, it is vital to propose design for automation (DFA). Quality function deployment (QFD) is applied a systematic aid in determining the design reflecting customer's needs. This study employs the QFD approach to plan the component designs of an effective automation process, and presents the development process of DFA with an illustrative project. As a result, the study identifies the developers' design requirements for automated construction and weights them by their importance indices.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2007

Increasing wages and decreasing skilled labors are problems awaiting solution. The development of automatic technologies contributes to accelerating the one of construction automation. Thus, this study is to suggest the way to develop the automated building construction system base on one performed in Japan in order to solve urgent problems of construction industry in Korea. Therefore interviews and questionnaires were performed based on experts who work for the automated building construction system field and analyzed through analytic hierarchy process. In doing so, it was the most important factor to develop a branch of automatic, mechanical or machine technologies for the automated building construction system. Especially the study indicated the importance of the technologies to substitute skilled labors such as a robot. This research could contribute to developing the automated building construction which is very unique and suitable for construction industry in Korea.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.139-152
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• 2008

In order to survive worldwide competition, today's industries are experiencing strong pressure to introduce higher quality products with lower cost and shorter lead-time. Therefore, the role of design in the process of product development is increasing in significance. In this research, two methods for improving the design capability are proposed: construction of design environment and design automation using 3D CAD system. The designers and design process are the core of product design using 3D CAD system. In order to maximize the design performance, construction of the design environment including selection of a suitable system, designer training for best use of the system, establishment of an efficient design process, and stabilization of the environment are required. A method is suggested to construct design environment by systematizing the contents of the projects and consulting experiences carried out for various categories of business such as electronic devices, motorcycles, electricity parts, sanitary wares, injection molds, and die casing molds. Design automation helps reduce tedious and time-consuming jobs, simplify complicated and error-prone modeling and drawing works to shorten the lead time and improve the product quality. To develop a design automation system, understanding the process and the related knowledge on design are very important before implementing the system using API provided by 3D CAD system. In this research, an eight-step procedure is proposed for the development of a design automation system. These eight steps are analysis of needs, determination of specification, verification of specification using 3D CAD system, inspection of related API functions, programming, field test, application in practice, and maintenance. A case study in which five design automation systems in the design of turbine generators using the proposed method is introduced in detail. These systems play important roles in the generation of various output items including 3D models, drafts, material information, and NC data. The case study shows how effectively the design time is reduced and the quality improved using those systems.

• 한국건설관리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건설관리학회 2008년도 정기학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.184-192
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• 2008

현재, 전 세계적으로 건설 산업의 문제점으로 인식되고 있는 낮은 생산성, 숙련공 부족, 인력의 부족, 높은 재해율 등을 해결하기 위한 방법으로 낙후된 건설 생산시스템의 첨단 기술화를 위한 건설 자동화연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 국내에서도 1980년대부터 건설자동화 연구가 진행되고 있으며 기계화 및 반자동화를 통한 생력화를 위한 연구가 주로 진행되었다. 그러나 최근 IT기술의 비약적 발전과 함께 건설 로봇의 개발에 대한 관심이 집중되고 있으며 2006년 말부터 국토해양부의 건설기술혁신사업의 일환으로 토공자동화를 위한 지능형 굴삭시스템이 개발되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 지능형 굴삭시스템의 최종 개발 목표와 2차 년도까지 진행된 연구내용에 대하여 소개하고자 한다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권4D호
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• pp.493-504
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• 2008

현재 건설시장에서는 시공의 기계화 및 로봇화 촉진을 통하여 인력의존형으로부터 탈피하고자 하는 노력이 지속적으로 이어져 오고 있다. 본 연구에서는 건설생산의 효율성 제고를 위한 건설기계장비의 활용도 향상을 위해 국내 외 건설기계 자동화와 관련된 연구개발 동향을 살펴보고, R&D 투자현황을 조사 분석하였다. 또한 건축과 토목공사에 있어 건설자동화 분류체계를 수립하고, 자동화 대상작업의 후보군을 선정한 후 설문조사를 통하여 자동화 대상작업의 우선순위를 도출하였다. 도출된 자동화 우선순위를 바탕으로 총괄로드맵을 작성하였으며, 자동화 단위 그룹과 단위 그룹 내 자동화 대상작업의 자동화에 필수적으로 요구되는 요소기술의 도출결과를 바탕으로 중점영역별 로드맵을 구축하여 제시하였다. 본 연구의 결과물은 국내 건설 생산방식의 성력화 및 기술집약화를 위한 첨단 기술분야 R&D 전략수립의 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2023년도 가을학술발표대회논문집
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• pp.165-166
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• 2023

Construction inspection and monitoring are key activities in construction projects. Automation of inspection tasks improves the limitations and inefficiencies of manual construction inspections, enabling systematic and consistent construction inspections. In this paper, an RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) system is used to remotely manage and supervise the construction site without having to visit the construction site by deploying a robot on site on behalf of four construction stakeholders (owner, supervisor, constructor, and designer). I would like to propose. The proposed system can contribute to identifying and monitoring the process process and work results at the construction site in real time.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 1th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.520-526
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• 2005

Automation in construction has been restricted to special classes of tasks. Curtain walls can be handled like standard construction materials; they are heavy but breakable, and are large but require precise installation. These characteristics make the installation of curtain walls ideal for robotic automation. There are two methods for developing construction robots: The first is approving the robot performance and applying it to the current construction methods. The second is admitting the limitation of the current robot technology and trying to optimize the current method of construction to apply the robot system. In this study, we derived the performance requirements of a curtain wall-installation robot. We also tested this robot at a real construction site and evaluated its performance. Finally, the results were analyzed, and we proposed additional research.