GRC 2

Factory automation of pre-fab GRC pieces for construction industry

Main researcher: C. Balaguer

GRC2

Description

This project is funded by the Spanish R&D agency CDTI and construction company DRACE (72.000 Euros ? UC3M). The main objective was the complete remodeling of the Caracola factory located in Torrejon, near Madrid. The factory manufactures big size (5-6 x 2 m) GRC (Glass Reinforced Concrete) pre-fab pieces for construction industry. The simulation of the pieces, materials, machines and operators flows permit the design of new factory lay-out. The new system is based on the automatic transportation of the panels, automatic assignation of the operators to the tasks and intelligent daily planning of the pieces to be produced. The system is supervised by the central computer with graphical friendly HMI.

Entries:
Fm2: A Real-Time Sensor-Based Feedback Controller For Mobile Robots
International Journal of Robotics and Automation. num. 1 , vol. 24 , pages: 3169 – 3192 , 2009
S. Garrido D. Blanco M. Abderrahim L. Moreno
Compact modeling technique for outdoor navigation
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A (ISSN: 1083-4427). num. 1 , vol. 38 , pages: 9 – 24 , 2008
D. Blanco L. Moreno

Entries:
Voronoi Extraction of Free-way Areas in Cluttered Environments
2005 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2005), Edmonton, Canada
D. Blanco L. Moreno
Electroactive Polymer Actuator design for space applications
8th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and AutomationASTRA 2004, 2004, ESTEC, Noordwik, Netherlands
D. Fernandez L. Moreno

Entries:
Advances in Robot Navigation
chapter: Exploration and Mapping Using the VFM Motion Planner. http://www.intechopen.com/download/pdf/pdfs_id/16164 pages: 81 – 98. I-Tech Education and Publishing. Viena. Austria , ISBN: 978-953-307-346, 2011
S. Garrido D. Blanco L. Moreno

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