scholarly journals Use of Ultra Wide Band Real-Time Location System on Construction Jobsites: Feasibility Study and Deployment Alternatives

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2219
Author(s):  
Waleed Umer ◽  
Mohsin K. Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Average Accuracy ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Level Of Effort

Ultra wide band (UWB)-based real-time location systems (RTLSs) have been widely adopted in the manufacturing industry for tracking tools, materials, and ensuring safety. Researchers in the construction domain have investigated similar uses for UWB-based RTLSs on construction jobsites. However, most of these investigations comprised small-scale experiments using average accuracy only to demonstrate use cases for the technology. Furthermore, they did not consider alternative deployment scenarios for practically feasible deployment of the technology. To overcome these limitations, a series of experiments were performed to study the feasibility of a commercially available RTLS on the construction jobsites. The focus of the work was on feasibility in terms of accuracy analysis of the system for a large experimental site, the level of effort requirements for deployment, and the impact of deployment alternatives on the accuracy of the system. The results found that average accuracy was found to be a misleading indicator of the perceived system performance (i.e., 95th percentile values were considerably higher than average values). Moreover, accuracy is significantly affected by the deployment alternatives. Collectively, the results arising from the study could help construction/safety managers in decision making related to the deployment of UWB-based RTLSs for their construction sites.

scholarly journals DESIGN AND FIRST DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED REAL‐TIME SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTION SITES

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Giretti ◽  
Alessandro Carbonari ◽  
Berardo Naticchia ◽  
Mario De Grassi
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Real Time Monitoring ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Ongoing Research

This paper reports a feasibility study which addressed the development of a new, advanced system mainly devoted to automatic real‐time health and safety management on construction sites. The preliminary analyses and experiments described in this paper concern two of the most important functionalities which must be included in the system's final release. The first functionality consists in real‐time position‐tracking of workers involved on construction sites and the second ‐ in a software tool for the prevention of non‐authorized access to dangerous zones. This research step is part of a vaster, ongoing research project, addressing the development of a new generation of advanced construction management systems which allow real‐time monitoring and coordination of tasks, automatic health and safety management, on‐site delivery of technical information and the capture of “as‐built” documentation. This paper focuses mainly on the development of a reliable methodology for real‐time monitoring of the position of both workers and equipment in outdoor construction sites by applying Ultra Wide Band (UWB) based technologies. This positioning system was then interfaced with a software tool which performs virtual fencing of pre‐selected, dangerous areas. Guidelines for the design of the receivers’ topology will be addressed and the results of measurements recorded on a typical medium‐sized block of flats, during different phases of the construction progress will be summed up. Finally, the preliminary experimental results obtained by the virtual fencing application tool will be presented and used to plan future research objectives. Santrauka Straipsnyje aptartos naujos automatinės darbo ir saugos valdymo sistemos statybos aikštelėje kūrimo galimybės. Aprašytos preliminarios analizės ir eksperimentai – du pagrindiniai veiksniai, kurie turi būti įtraukti į galutinį sistemos variantą. Pirmasis veiksnys susijęs su statybos aikštelės darbininkų padėties realiu laiku nustatymu. Kompiuterine programa ribojamas jų patekimas į pavojingas neleistinas zonas. Šie tyrimai yra didelio besitęsiančio projekto dalis. Projektas susijęs su naujos kartos statybos valdymo sistemos kūrimu. Sistema leis kontroliuoti statybos eigą realiu laiku, užtikrinti automatinį darbų saugos valdymą, techninės informacijos ir dokumentacijos gavimą. Straipsnyje pagrindinis dėmesys sukoncentruotas į patikimos metodikos kūrimą. Taikant šią metodiką ir ultraplačiajuosčio bevielio ryšio (angl. Ultra Wide Band (UWB)) technologiją, galima bus nustatyti darbininkų ir įrangos padėtį atvirose statybos aikštelėse realiu laiku. Ši nustatymo sistema per grafinę terpę yra sujungta su programine įranga, kuri sukuria virtualų aptvarą iš anksto nurodytoms pavojingoms zonoms. Pateiktos imtuvo topologijos projektavimo rekomendacijos. Įvertinti tipinių vidutinio dydžio butų blokų užfiksuotų matavimų rezultatai skirtingais statybos etapais. Pateikti preliminarūs eksperimentiniai rezultatai, gauti įvedus virtualaus aptvėrimo koncepciją. Šie rezultatai bus panaudoti planuojant būsimų tyrimų tikslus.

scholarly journals Design of a Low-Cost Indoor Navigation System for Food Delivery Robot Based on Multi-Sensor Information Fusion

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (22) ◽  
pp. 4980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunlong Sun ◽  
Lianwu Guan ◽  
Zhanyuan Chang ◽  
Chuanjiang Li ◽  
Yanbin Gao
Keyword(s):  
Information Fusion ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Indoor Navigation ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Steering Control ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Meal Delivery

As the restaurant industry is facing labor shortage issues, the use of meal delivery robots instead of waiters/waitresses not only allows the customers to experience the impact of robot technology but also benefits the restaurant business financially by reducing labor costs. Most existing meal delivery robots employ magnetic navigation technologies, which require magnetic strip installation and changes to the restaurant decor. Once the moving path is changed, the magnetic strips need to be re-laid. This study proposes multisource information fusion, i.e., the fusion of ultra-wide band positioning technology with an odometer and a low-cost gyroscope accelerometer, to achieve the positioning of a non-rail meal delivery robot with navigation. By using a low-cost electronic compass and gyroscope accelerometer, the delivery robot can move along a fixed orbit in a flexible and cost-effective manner with steering control. Ultra-wide band (UWB) and track estimation algorithm are combined by extended Kalman filter (EKF), and the positioning error after fusion is about 15 cm, which is accepted by restaurants. In summary, the proposed approach has some potential for commercial applications.

scholarly journals Control and application of accuracy positioning estimation based real-time location system

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Ahmet Aktaş
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Control Algorithm ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Location System ◽  
Real Time Location System ◽  
Location Systems

Nowadays, with the development of ultra-wide band antennas and internet of thing technologies, tracing systems are being developed in many fields such as security, health, mining and transportation. The accuracy location estimation issue is becoming very important in areas of application where occupational health and safety are high. In these applications, the transfer of information between the target and the manager, whose location must be accuracy known, has become indispensable. Especially when the target person is human, the movement parameters such as speed, acceleration, position and altitude compose the calculation parameters of the central management system. The information to be sent by the worker in emergency situations and warnings explain the need for real-time location systems to avoid a possible occupational accident. This paper includes real-time location system structure and improved accuracy location control algorithm, which are being used in occupational health and safety, hospital, storage, mine and tracing areas. The real-time location system was designed using a DWM1000 location sensor module with an ultra-wide band integrated antenna. Product usage time has been extended in designed real-time location cards with low power consuming processors. An accuracy positioning control algorithm has been improved to quickly and exactly locate the target to be tracked. With this algorithm, a new approach to real-time location systems has been introduced and worker tracing, information and warning systems are made with fast response time. The control cards developed in a sample workspace were tested and the application results on the developed computer virtual map interface were given.

scholarly journals A Generic Asset Model for Implementing Product Digital Twins in Smart Remanufacturing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mairi Kerin ◽  
Duc Truong Pham ◽  
Jun Huang ◽  
Jeremy Hadall
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Embedded Sensors ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Abstract A digital twin is a “live” virtual replica of a sensorised component, product, process, human, or system. It accurately copies the entity being modelled by capturing information in real time or near real time from the entity through embedded sensors and the Internet-of-Things. Many applications of digital twins in manufacturing industry have been investigated. This article focuses on the development of product digital twins to reduce the impact of quantity, quality, and demand uncertainties in remanufacturing. Starting from issues specific to remanufacturing, the article derives the functional requirements for a product digital twin for remanufacturing and proposes a UML model of a generic asset to be remanufactured. The model has been demonstrated in a case study which highlights the need to translate existing knowledge and data into an integrated system to realise a product digital twin, capable of supporting remanufacturing process planning.

scholarly journals Impact of Delay Spread on IEEE 802.15.4a Networks with Energy Detection Receivers

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Medina ◽  
J. R. Gallardo ◽  
J. Sánchez ◽  
F. Ramírez-Mireles
Keyword(s):  
Bit Error Rate ◽  
Error Rate ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Energy Detection ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Delay Spread ◽  
Multiuser Interference ◽  
Ieee 802.15.4A ◽  
Industrial Environments ◽  
The Impact

This work analyzes the impact of delay spread on IEEE 802.15.4a networks using energy detection (ED) receivers.Specifically, we review the typical values for delay spread in Ultra Wide Band (UWB) systems reported to date for indoor, outdoor and industrial environments, and study how the delay spread impacts the bit-error rate with and without Multiuser Interference (MUI).

Real-time Visitor’s Behavior Analysis System via Ultra-Wide Band Radar

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
Joosoon Lee ◽  
Hogeon Seo ◽  
Kyoobin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Analysis ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Analysis System
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