Petersen KH, Napp N, Stuart-Smith R, Rus D, Kovac M. A review of collective robotic construction.
Sci Robot 2019;
4:4/28/eaau8479. [PMID:
33137745 DOI:
10.1126/scirobotics.aau8479]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Accepted: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
The increasing need for safe, inexpensive, and sustainable construction, combined with novel technological enablers, has made large-scale construction by robot teams an active research area. Collective robotic construction (CRC) specifically concerns embodied, autonomous, multirobot systems that modify a shared environment according to high-level user-specified goals. CRC tightly integrates architectural design, the construction process, mechanisms, and control to achieve scalability and adaptability. This review gives a comprehensive overview of research trends, open questions, and performance metrics.
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