RoboCapture. Automated and agile robotic platform for image and 3D scanning data capture in construction

评估可行性，发现利用自主、稳定的轮式机器人设备帮助和改进图像和3D数据捕获以扫描、检查和监控环境的可行性，并发现市场机会，主要用于建筑行业内的建筑工程，对棕地(危险)土地感兴趣，以及许多其他行业的次要使用案例，如医疗保健、农业、仓库、深度采矿、安全、机场等。因此，我们正在探索机器人技术，以提高对重复、危险和繁重任务的适应能力。**目标**更深入地了解建筑市场最终用户的技术需求。*生产一种创新的灵活轮式机器人的演示设备，使我们能够在真实世界的场景中与最终用户接触。*评估我们知道存在于更深层次的商业机会。**主要重点领域*大幅降低与使用机器人解决方案进行自动检查任务相关的成本。*为了提高质量，捕捉数据的覆盖率和频率。*详细探讨Motion Impact(MI)如何使其核心技术多样化并扩展到新市场。**它如何创新？**MI已经为全球高端电视/电影制作中的高质量图像捕捉生产机器人解决方案超过6年。MI已经开发的技术可以直接转移到解决其他市场的类似问题，MI有一个他们希望采取的市场多元化战略。这项可行性研究将探索现有MI稳定技术的组合，并将其与轮式全方位运动的全新创新相结合，这将为在许多不同的操作场景中模仿人类的灵活性和稳定性提供经济高效的解决方案。虽然轮式机器人和全方位解决方案存在并且相对经济高效，但它们存在弱点，使它们无法适用于许多地形和情况。步行机器人在敏捷性方面提供了显著的改进，但这是在成本过高的水平上实现的，这减少了可行的市场机会的数量。这项研究将提出一种符合当前轮式机器人和步行机器人之间的成本效益解决方案的路线图。它将以一种目前不可用的方式移动和稳定图像和3D数据捕获设备。

To assess the feasibility and discover the technical needs and market opportunities that arise from utilising an autonomous, stabilised, wheeled robotic device to aid and improve image and 3D data capture for scanning, inspecting and monitoring environments, primarily on building works within the construction industry, with an interest in brownfield (dangerous) land, and with secondary use cases in a number of other industries such as healthcare, agriculture, warehouses, deep mining, security, airports and more. As such, we are exploring robotics to increase resilience for repetitive, dangerous and strenuous tasks.**Objectives*** To gain deeper understanding of the technical needs of end users in the construction market.* To produce demonstration equipment of an innovative new agile wheeled robot that will allow us to engage with end users in real world scenarios.* To assess the commercial opportunities that we know to exist on a deeper level.**Main areas of focus*** To dramatically reduce the costs associated with using robotic solutions for automated inspection tasks.* To increase the quality, coverage and frequency of captured data.* To explore in detail how Motion Impossible (MI) can diversify its core technology and expand into new markets.**How it is innovative?**MI has been producing robotic solutions for high quality image capture within high end TV/film productions worldwide for over 6 years. The technology MI has developed is directly transferrable to solve similar problems in other markets, and MI has a strategy of market diversification that they wish to action.This feasibility study will explore the combination of pre-existing MI stabilisation technology and integrate it with a brand new innovation in wheeled omni-directional movement that will provide a cost effective solution for mimicking human like agility and stability in many different operating scenarios.Whilst wheeled robots and omni-directional solutions exist and are relatively cost effective, they have weaknesses which prevent them being viable for many terrains and situations. Walking robots offer significant improvements in agility, but this comes at a cost prohibitive level that reduces the number of viable market opportunities.This study will produce a roadmap for a cost-effective solution that fits in the space between current wheeled and walking robots. It will move and stabilise image and 3D data capture devices in a way not currently available.