CoCoRo

Collaborative Construction Robots

Principal Investigators 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fottner
Chair of Material Handling, Material Flow and Logistics, TUM School of Engineering and Design

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Christian Knoll
Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology 

Motivation

• Reliance on manually operated machinery and human labor on construction sites

• Challenges include high costs, hazardous work conditions, and skilled labor shortage

• Construction sites are unstructured and dynamic, making automation complex

Goal

• Research on transition from manual to fully autonomous construction sites

• Transform construction sites into safer, more efficient, and collaborative environments by integrating autonomous and intelligent machinery

Key objectives

• Develop multi-level interaction frameworks between humans and machines, and between machines themselves

• Develop intelligent perception and decision-making algorithms for communication

• Implement use cases with small-to-medium-sized machinery