A Brief Review on Robotic Floor-Tiling

Abstract

There are large quantities of tiles to be consumed every year all over the world. Developing construction robot to replace the worker to accomplish the floor-tiling task will playa key role in future construction automation. In this paper, a brief review on the research progress of the robotic floor-tiling is presented. Firstly, several kinds of manual floor-tiling methods are analyzed. Next, a survey on the tolerance requirements of tile installation is provided. Following that, the mechanisms of the floor-tiling robot technologies are highlighted. At last, the technical difficulties needed to be overcome is discussed and the future research work of the floor-tiling robot is prospected.