A Fully-Integrated Sensing and Control System for High-Accuracy Mobile Robotic Building Construction
Abel Gawel, Hermann Blum, Johannes Pankert, Koen Krämer, Luca Bartolomei, Selen Ercan, Farbod Farshidian, Margarita Chli, Fabio Gramazio, Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter, Timothy Sandy
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We present a fully-integrated sensing and control system which enables mobile manipulator robots to execute building tasks with millimeter-scale accuracy on building construction sites. The approach leverages multi-modal sensing capabilities for state estimation, tight integration with digital building models, and integrated trajectory planning and whole-body motion control. A novel method for high-accuracy localization updates relative to the known building structure is proposed. The approach is implemented on a real platform and tested under realistic construction conditions. We show that the system can achieve sub-cm end-effector positioning accuracy during fully autonomous operation using solely on-board sensing.