Kawada Industries, Shibaura Institute of Technology (Professor Satoko Yasuko), and Kawada Technologies have started collaborative development of an "avatar system" that allows remote operators to manage the quality and form of construction sites and collaborate while they are in the office. bottom.

 Currently, at the construction site of bridges, a wide range of quality and finished form management work is being carried out as part of construction management.It is mainly measured manually at the site, and spends a lot of time including management of measurement data and creation of forms.On the other hand, due to the labor shortage due to the declining birthrate and aging population, the labor of on-site staff is increasing, and there is a need for technological development to improve on-site quality assurance ability and productivity (time reduction and man-hour reduction).

 The avatar system is a system that connects mobile work robots (avatars), remote control terminals, measuring instruments handled by robots, etc. by high-speed communication.It enables operators, field staff, store staff, orderers, etc. to interactively share information, acquire various quality and finished data, and collaborate with local staff.

 This time, we will develop a system for full digitization and remoteization of measurement work.Specifically, the quality and finished shape measurement data of the bridge acquired by the avatar at the site is transferred to the cloud server and automatically converted into a form so that it can be shared with the store company and the orderer.As a result, instead of the on-site staff, the store company staff and the teleworkers can manage the quality and finished form of a plurality of on-site.In addition, remote witnessing of the ordering party will be possible, and it is expected that the productivity of construction work and the quality assurance ability will be improved.

 Modern society is also exposed to the risk of infectious diseases such as the new coronavirus.The development group says that it will establish a "new way of working" centered on telework in which store staff and teleworkers collaborate with the field.

reference:[Shibaura Institute of Technology] Started joint development of "Avatar system" for construction sites

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