Smart Ceiling Drilling With Coordinate Mapping and Route Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Manual perforation of ceilings in buildings is inefficient and inaccurate due to the need for frequent movement of ladders or scaffolding, leading to increased time and risk of errors, especially in large areas with many perforation points.
Innovation Solution
A smart drilling system that includes a terminal for mapping design coordinates to actual coordinates using a total station, a drilling machine with a position adjustment device, and a moving device, allowing for automatic and accurate perforation of multiple or single points with minimized movement and real-time communication for optimal route planning and error correction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual perforation is performed using a drill with ladder or scaffolding, then the worker can reach ceiling positions, but the time required increases significantly and accuracy decreases due to frequent movement and manual marking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical operations with an automated drilling machine that integrates positioning, movement, and drilling functions. The system uses a control unit to automatically control the drilling machine's movement to designated coordinates, eliminating manual marking and positioning operations. This substitution of mechanical manual work with automated control systems directly resolves the contradiction by improving both accuracy (through precise coordinate-based positioning) and efficiency (through automated operations that eliminate frequent setup changes).
Solution Approach 2:
The drilling machine is equipped with self-positioning capabilities through integrated sensors and control systems that automatically navigate to predetermined coordinates without requiring manual intervention for marking or positioning. The system performs self-correction and self-adjustment during operation, maintaining accuracy while continuously moving between perforation points without requiring external guidance or frequent human intervention.
2Productivity
If the number of perforation points increases in large buildings, then more ceiling structures can be installed, but the time required for perforation work increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables continuous perforation operations by eliminating idle time between perforation points. The automated drilling machine continuously moves from one coordinate to the next without requiring setup changes, ladder repositioning, or manual repositioning. The system maintains continuous operational state through automated navigation and positioning, ensuring that the useful action of perforation continues without interruption across multiple points, directly addressing the productivity-time contradiction.
Solution Approach 2:
The drilling machine incorporates dynamic movement capabilities that allow it to adapt its position and orientation automatically during operation. The system can dynamically adjust its location, height, and drilling angle in response to real-time positioning data, enabling seamless transitions between multiple perforation points. This dynamic adaptability allows the system to maintain high productivity across varying work conditions and large numbers of perforation points without time loss.
3Measurement precision
If manual marking of perforation locations is performed, then the worker can identify drill positions, but accuracy is degraded and errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual visual marking systems with an automated optical/electronic positioning system. Instead of using chalk or markers to indicate drill locations, the system uses coordinate data, sensors, and control algorithms to precisely determine and execute drilling positions. This substitution eliminates human error in marking while maintaining or improving accuracy, and the added complexity is confined to the electronic control system rather than requiring complex mechanical positioning apparatus.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a digital copy or representation of the desired perforation pattern through coordinate data and programming. Instead of manually transferring design information to physical marks on the ceiling, the system uses digital models and coordinate systems that can be precisely reproduced and executed by the automated drilling machine. This digital copying approach ensures high accuracy while reducing the complexity of physical positioning apparatus.
4Ease of operation
If scaffolding is used for high ceiling perforation, then the worker can reach elevated positions, but the time to ascend, descend, and reposition scaffolding significantly reduces efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The drilling machine is designed as a multi-functional system that combines the functions of scaffolding, positioning equipment, and drilling apparatus into a single integrated unit. The machine can automatically adjust its height to reach any ceiling position within its range, eliminating the need for separate scaffolding structures. This universal design provides both ease of access to elevated positions and eliminates the time-consuming scaffolding repositioning operations, as the machine handles both functions simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges previously separate operations (scaffolding setup, positioning, and drilling) into a single integrated automated system. The drilling machine combines the support function of scaffolding with the positioning precision of measurement equipment and the drilling capability, all controlled by a unified control system. This merging eliminates the sequential time loss associated with setting up and repositioning scaffolding, as the integrated system performs all functions in continuous operation.
Data Source
AI summary
A smart drilling system includes a terminal configured to map a design space to an actual space and having perforation location information in the design space, a drilling machine including a drill for perforation and configured to perform perforation in the actual space under control of the terminal based on the perforation location information, and a total station configured to acquire location information of a reference point in the actual space for mapping the design space to the actual space and location information of the drilling machine in the actual space, and to transmit the location information of the reference point in the actual space and the location information of the drilling machine to the terminal, wherein the terminal recognizes and displays a perforable region or a perforable point at a current position of the drilling machine.