Hyundai Engineering Wins Two Categories at the 'Smart Construction Challenge 2021'

Robotics and Smart Safety Win Top Technology and Innovation Awards
Autonomous Floor Finishing Robot ‘AI Badak Mijang Robot’ and Quadruped Robot ‘Spot’ Utilized
Advanced Smart Construction Technologies Including AI, Modular, BIM Developed Centered on ‘Smart Technology Center’

'AI Floor Troweling Robot' jointly developed by Hyundai Engineering and RoboBlock System.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kangwook Cho] Hyundai Engineering has proven its industry-leading smart construction technology capabilities by winning awards in two categories?Smart Safety and Robotics?at the ‘Smart Construction Challenge 2021’ hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

On the 16th, Hyundai Engineering announced that it received the Grand Prize in the Robotics category (Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Award) and the Innovation Award in the Smart Safety category (President of the Korea Infrastructure Safety & Technology Corporation Award) at the ‘Smart Construction Challenge 2021.’

The ‘Smart Construction Challenge 2021’ is an event designed to discover smart construction technologies that utilize advanced technologies based on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, aiming to promote the dissemination of smart construction technologies and boost the construction industry. The competition featured fierce contests across five fields: Smart Safety, Construction Automation, Robotics, Construction IoT·AI·Sensing, and BIM SW Live.

Hyundai Engineering submitted two technologies in the Robotics and Smart Safety categories. In the Robotics category, it entered the ‘AI Floor Troweling Robot,’ and in the Smart Safety category, it submitted the ‘Smart Safety Monitoring Team’ utilizing the quadruped robot Spot. Both technologies were selected as innovative technologies, earning the Grand Prize (Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Award) and the Innovation Award (President of the Korea Infrastructure Safety & Technology Corporation Award), respectively.

The ‘AI Floor Troweling Robot’ technology, jointly developed with Roboblock System, was created to replace the concrete floor troweling work traditionally performed manually with a robot, aiming to improve construction productivity, quality, and safety. Compared to existing floor troweling equipment, it has been significantly lightened to enhance usability, and by adopting an electric motor, it produces less noise and is more environmentally friendly than conventional equipment using internal combustion engines.

Applying this technology can prevent floor troweling defects in smart factories, large logistics warehouses, and factory-type buildings, and in apartment construction sites, it can reduce inter-floor noise through solid floor surface troweling.

Furthermore, Hyundai Engineering integrated image processing technology into the troweling robot to develop autonomous driving and swarm driving technologies. Using LiDAR technology for autonomous driving and cameras mounted on the robot body to recognize the color and shape of the leading robot from the rear robot, multiple troweling robots can repeat the same task, enabling rapid completion of large-area troweling work.

The 'Smart Safety Monitoring Team' jointly developed by Hyundai Engineering and Conworse.

The ‘Smart Safety Monitoring Team’ technology, jointly developed by Hyundai Engineering and Conwus Co., Ltd., is an advanced smart construction technology that uses Spot, the quadruped robot from Boston Dynamics in the U.S., to detect hazards on construction sites in advance or patrol completed facilities to identify abnormal signals.

The robot is equipped with a sensor box integrating nine smart devices for the first time in Korea, including ▲3D scanner ▲360° camera ▲temperature and humidity sensors ▲oxygen concentration and carbon dioxide concentration sensors ▲real-time CCTV ▲dust and particulate sensors ▲fire detection sensors ▲noise sensors ▲acoustic speakers.

In particular, the sensor box attached to the top of Spot was miniaturized to ensure the robot’s driving stability, and its lightweight design significantly reduced battery consumption, maximizing operational efficiency.

Seungcheol Lee, Executive Director and Head of Hyundai Engineering’s Smart Technology Center, said, “Our efforts to discover and develop smart construction technologies have borne fruit with the selection of two innovative technologies at the ‘Smart Construction Challenge 2021.’ We plan to further solidify our position as an industry-leading company in the smart construction technology field by concentrating company-wide capabilities on smart construction technology development.”

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