Successful third consortial meeting of the TARGET- X project in Aachen

The recent consortium meeting with the TARGET-X partners was very successful and provided a valuable platform to share updates and discuss challenges and synergies. The meeting fostered productive discussions, allowing partners to share insights and address potential obstacles together. By leveraging the diverse expertise within the consortium, the meeting facilitated the identification of synergies and opportunities for further collaboration, ensuring the continued progress and success of the project.

The Chair of Individualized Production and Center Construction Robotics, represented by Viktoria Jung, Marit Zöcklein and Han Wu had the chance to show the progress in the construction vertical as well as highlighting the project plans with the FSTP partners and the ReSTage demonstrator to validate 5G potentials in construction.

Mar 7, 2024

Construction Robotics Master Students win first prize in the competition “Auf IT Gebaut”

In the competition “Built on IT - Building professions with a future”, the RKW Competence Centre honoured the most innovative and at the same time practical digital solutions for young building professionals. Yasmin Ragab, Radwa Elsobki and Noureldeen Nagm, students from the international Construction & Robotics master’s programme, won the first prize for their project “OpenCV and BIM integration for the positioning of panels”. Congratulations!

The project was part of the Course CR_Prototyping Project (PT), supervised by Davide Picchi and Prof Sigrid Brell-Cokcan.

Mar 7, 2024

Internet of Construction Book is online

The book on the BMBF-funded project IoC - Internet of Construction - Information networks for cross-company collaboration in the construction industry’s production chains is now available. Find out more about various fundamental and innovatve topics such as construction logistics, construction progress monitoring, intralogistics, BIM, ontology, robotics, automation, IoT and much more.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-42544-9

Mar 7, 2024

How Robeton Is Advancing Concrete Reuse with Robotic Precision

Last year, we have successfully finished the ROBETON Project. Rising raw material prices and climate change require a rethink in the handling of existing material resources and existing buildings. By digitally upgrading a demolition machine from the BROKK DA GmbH company to a (partially) automated robot, a new sustainable process for the safe, controlled deconstruction and subsequent reuse of concrete components as a source of secondary building products was developed at the Chair of Individualized Production at RWTH Aachen University. In addition, the project is supported by the project partners Hilti Cooperation and Brokk DA GmbH as well as the associated project partners PORR AG, EIFFAGE, LEONHARD WEISS GmbH & Co. KG, HKS Dreh-Antriebe GmbH, Kerschgens Werkstoffe & Mehr GmbH, IMF Group and igus GmbH.

The ROBETON research project was funded by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (BMWSB) with funds from the Zukunft Bau research grant and was awarded second place in the 2022 BAUMA Innovation Prize in the research category.

… and the breaking news are: ROBETON continues – stay tuned for our journey for the safe and controlled deconstruction of concrete components.

The project was led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. techn. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and managed by Christoph Heuer. We would like to thank all researchers Christoph Heuer, Joo Lee, Victoria, Aaron Lentes and our Media Team: Simon Laprell, Marica Vitt.

Mar 7, 2024

Mastering Construction Robotics with ROS: A Comprehensive Learning Platform at RWTH Aachen University

The main objective of the FREIRAUM project is to teach and learn Robot Operating System (ROS) in the construction robotics field. ROS is a framework that has established itself over the last 15 years in the robotics and automation industries as a powerful tool for developing complex engineering systems. Meanwhile, ROS has become a widely used standard in robotics. Thanks to its scalability, efficiency, and user-friendliness, ROS offers a very realistic virtual environment for the use of automated construction machines and robots. With ROS, technical procedures and processes as well as complex robot simulations can be realized and simulated dynamically.

At RWTH Aachen University, students have access to learning materials in the form of videos, multiple-choice tests, and virtual labs. They receive guidance through complex robotics topics, progressing step by step. In addition to ROS lessons provided through lecture videos and assessment tests, each student has the opportunity to implement and test their own projects in a virtual environment.

This project is supported by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschulehre and led by the Chair of Individualized Production at RWTH Aachen University.

The project was led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. techn. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and managed by Davide Picchi. We would like to thank all researchers Davide Picchi, Dr. Sven Stumm, Zhao Zhongqian and Christoph Heuer.

Mar 7, 2024
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