JPH1037459A - Control system of work and process of the work - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically record and control a progressing state of work in correspondence with a program of work and to enable the issuance of a warning automatically to workers when the progressing state of work is not matched with the program of work. SOLUTION: Data base 9 for storing a working drawing 7 and a working planning 8 is put in a work controlling computer 6, information 10 (tool position and measuring result of tool characteristic working information) sent from a wrench tool 1 through network 5 and information sent from a camera 16 taking a picture of a direction of the working place as the object to be photographed by making use of the measuring information are combined with position information, and the actual working contents is recorded in the data base 9. While. in the case the actual working contents are not matched with the working planning 8, indication/warning device 12 near by the working place concerned are detected, and warning output is made to workers therefrom.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a construction process management system applied to new construction and maintenance work of civil engineering buildings and various plants.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in civil engineering work, building work, plant construction work, and the like, a site supervisor supervises the work status visually and takes photographs as necessary to manage and record the construction process. Was common.

Conventionally, a system for managing a construction process plan using a computer has also been used, but a site supervisor has always confirmed whether or not the construction is actually being carried out according to the process.

[0004] Therefore, there is a possibility that the construction may be defective due to oversight of the site supervisor, and there is a problem that the progress of the process cannot be grasped in real time from an office of a remote owner or the like.

[0005]

Conventionally, as described above, the on-site supervisor has performed the process management and recording of various types of construction and the confirmation of whether or not the construction is being carried out as scheduled. In addition to the heavy load, there is a possibility that a confirmation error may be caused, and furthermore, there is a problem that the progress of the process cannot be grasped in real time from an office of a remote owner or the like.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a construction process management system capable of automatically recording and managing the progress of construction in association with a construction process plan. .

Another object of the present invention is to provide a construction process management system capable of automatically issuing a warning to an operator when the progress of the construction does not match the construction process plan. Still another object of the present invention is to provide a construction process management system capable of grasping the progress of construction from a remote place in real time.

[0008]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the construction process management system of the present invention is used for construction work, and stores its own position and tool-specific work information corresponding to the contents of the work performed. Measure and measure the position and orientation of the tool with the function of transmitting both measurement information to the network by communication means, use the measurement information to photograph the direction of the construction work location to be photographed, A camera having a function of transmitting the position of the photographing target and photographed image information to the network by the communication means, a computer for construction process management, and measuring the position of the self, and transmitting the measured position information to the communication means A warning output unit for notifying the computer via a network and outputting a warning to a worker in accordance with an instruction from the computer. The following database and processing means, that is, a database that stores construction drawings relating to construction to be managed and a construction process plan that defines work locations and work contents for each process, the construction drawings and the construction process plan, and A database for recording information obtained from the tool and the camera in association with mainly position information, and a construction process plan in the database;
By linking information obtained from the tool and the camera via the network by position information and recording the actual work content in the database, while determining the consistency between the actual work content and the construction process plan, If it is determined that there is no consistency, the warning output means near the corresponding work location is detected based on the position information from the warning output means, and a warning output to the worker is output to the warning output means via a network. And processing means for giving an instruction via the.

In the construction process management system of the present invention, the construction process management computer and the remote computer are connected by remote communication means, and the remote computer is connected to the computer in the construction process management computer. It is also characterized in that the contents of the database can be confirmed and corrected via the remote communication means.

[0010] In the construction process management system having such a configuration, the tool used for the construction work includes a self-position measuring means for measuring its own position, and a work for measuring work information specific to the tool corresponding to the contents of the performed work. Information measurement means;
Built-in communication means. Self-position measuring means is GPS
(Global positioning system) or the like. When the tool is, for example, a wrench, the work information measuring means is a tightening torque measuring device. The tool transmits a set of both measurement information obtained by the self-position measurement means and the work information measurement means to the network by the communication means.

A computer for construction process management is connected to the network. This computer receives information transmitted from the tool to the network. Process management software is running on the computer. The computer stores construction drawings and construction process plan data in a database. Each process of the construction process plan includes information on a place where the process is to be performed, and is associated with the construction drawing.

The information from the tool received by the computer from the network includes information on the position of the tool itself (self-position information) measured by the tool (self-position measuring means therein). Then, the processing means realized by the operation of the process management software on the computer associates any process of the construction process plan through the construction drawing based on the information on the self-position of the tool. Here, when there is a difference in work information or the like between the step corresponding to the information from the tool and the step associated with the information from the tool (if the tool is a wrench, If the tightening torque measured by the work information measuring means is out of the range of the tightening torque defined in the work contents of the above-described associated process), the processing means of the computer determines the work contents of the tool and the work It is determined that the process plan is not consistent.

The warning output means includes a self-position measuring means and a communication means like the above-mentioned tool, and transmits information on the self-position to the network by the communication means. The computer receives the information on the self-position transmitted to the network from the warning output means, selects a process related to the position of the warning output means based on the information, and instructs the warning output means to output. . When the computer determines that the work content of the tool and the construction process plan do not match, the warning output means outputs a warning to the operator by display output, voice output, or the like.

The camera has a built-in self-position measuring means and a communication means like the above-mentioned tool. The camera automatically determines an aim in the direction of a work position (an object to be photographed) determined by a construction process plan based on the self-position measured by the self-position measuring means, and determines the position (for example, a still image and Take a video). Information of this shooting result (image information)
Is transmitted to the computer through the network 5 by the communication means. The processing means of the computer receives the image information from the camera and records it in the database in correspondence with the corresponding process in the construction process plan.

The construction process management computer is connected to a remote computer through a remote communication means such as the Internet or satellite communication, so that the remote computer can access the database of the construction process management computer. Can be confirmed and corrected through the remote communication means.

As described above, according to the present invention, the following operation and effect can be obtained. (1) The place where the work was performed, the time, and the content of the work can be recorded in the database in association with a predetermined construction process plan.

(2) When the work performed is not consistent with the construction process plan, this can be detected and a warning can be given to the worker. (3) The construction progress can be grasped in real time from a remote place.

[0018]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a construction process management system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a mutual relationship between components of the system and an internal configuration of each component.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a tool, for example, a wrench tool, used for civil engineering work, construction work, plant construction work and the like. As shown in FIG. 2, the wrench tool 1 has a built-in GPS receiver 2 as self-position measuring means for measuring its own position using, for example, GPS (Global Positioning System). This GPS receiver 2
Has a GPS antenna 2a for receiving a radio wave (GPS radio wave) from a GPS satellite 22, measures the position of the wrench tool 1 from the received GPS radio wave (received GPS data), and obtains its position information (GPS information). I do.

The wrench tool 1 is also provided as shown in FIG.
Work contents (work information) specific to the tool 1, for example, a tightening torque measuring device 3 as work information measuring means for measuring tightening torque, position information (GPS information) obtained by the GPS receiver 2, and tightening torque measurement A wireless communication device 4 as a communication means for wirelessly transmitting a set of work information (measurement information unique to the tool 1) obtained by the device 3 to a network 5, for example. Another wireless communication device 24 is connected to the network 5, and information (position information and work information of the tool 1) transmitted from the wrench tool 1 (the wireless communication device 4 therein) is transmitted to the wireless communication device 24. 24 and transmitted over the network 5.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 23 denotes a GPS base station. The GPS base station 23 receives radio waves from the GPS satellites 22 and transmits the received data to the network 5. A computer 6 is connected to the network 5.
The computer 6 transmits the information transmitted from the wrench tool 1 to the network 5 via the wireless communication device 24 (position information and work information of the tool 1) and the information transmitted from the GPS base station 23 to the network 5, 5 Then, the computer 6 corrects the received position information (GPS information) from the wrench tool 1 by a differential method using data from the GPS base station 23 serving as a reference point, and obtains an accurate position of the wrench tool 1. .

The computer 6 has a database 9 that stores data of construction drawings 7 and construction process plans 8 relating to the construction to be managed. The construction process plan 8 is a set of processes defined by the position (place) and time (sequence) to be executed, the range of a proper tightening torque as predetermined work content, and the necessity of photographing. .
Each process indicated by the construction process plan 8 is associated with the construction drawing 7 as indicated by an arrow A in FIG.

When information is transmitted from the tool 1 to the network 5 as a result of the use of the wrench tool 1, the computer 6 receives the information from the tool 1. Information 10 received by the computer 6 from the tool 1 (information received from the tool) 10 includes position information of the tool 1 itself (information of a self-position measured by the GPS receiver 2 in the tool 1) and work information (tool information). 1 includes tightening torque measurement data measured by the tightening torque measuring device 3).

Therefore, the computer 6 uses the position information in the information 10 received from the tool 1, that is, the position information of the tool 1 (actually, the position information corrected by the data from the GPS base station 23 as described above). By searching the construction process plan 8 through the construction drawing 7, the position of the tool 1 can be associated with any process in the construction process plan 8. This association is realized by the computer 6 executing the construction process management software (construction process management software program) 11.

Here, when the construction process corresponding to the position information in the information 10 from the tool 1 is not found in the construction process plan 8 (that is, the position of the tool 1 is not associated with any process of the construction process plan 8). Case) and a case where the order in which the process is to be performed or the work content is different from the definition in the construction process plan 8 (for example, the tightening torque indicated by the work information included in the information 10 from the tool 1 is In the case where the work is out of the range of the legitimate tightening torque indicated by the work content in the process plan 8), the computer 6 does not match the work content by the tool 1 with the construction process plan 8, ie, the work is It is determined that it deviates from the process plan 8.

In the present system, a display / warning device 12 as a warning output means for outputting a warning to a worker in accordance with an instruction from the computer 5 is arranged at a place where each process is performed (however, Only one is shown in the figure). The display / warning device 12 is, in addition to the display device 13,
GPS antenna 14 similar to that of wrench tool 1
GPS receiver 1 as self-position measuring means having a
And a wireless communication device 15 having a built-in wireless communication device 15 as communication means, transmitting information on its own position measured by the GPS receiver 14 from the wireless communication device 15, and connecting to another network 5 24 to the network 5.

The computer 6 receives the position information of the display / warning device 12 transmitted from the display / warning device 12 to the network 5 via the wireless communication device 24. Then, based on the position information from the display / warning device 12, the computer 6 sends the display / warning device 12
Of the display / warning device 1 corresponding to the installation position of the
Search for the process to be performed in the place where 2 is located,
The contents of the process are sent to the display / warning device 12 via the network 5 (and the wireless communication device 24) and displayed on (the display device 13 of) the display / warning device 12.

When the computer 6 searches the construction process plan 8 based on the information from the tool 1 as described above, it determines that the work using the tool 1 deviates from the process plan 8. On the basis of the position information from each of the display / warning devices 12, a search is made for a display / warning device 12 near the position where the work has been performed, and the display / warning device 12 is connected to the display / warning device 12 via the network 5. Display a warning. In addition, a warning by sound may be performed instead of or in addition to the warning display.

In the present system, for example, a mobile camera 16 is disposed at (near) a place where each process is performed, similarly to the display / warning device 12 described above. The camera 16 includes a photographing device 17 capable of changing a photographing direction.
In addition, a GPS receiver 18 as a self-position measuring means having a GPS antenna 18a and a wireless communication device 19 as a communication means are built in.
The information of the self-position measured by the wireless communication device 19 is transmitted from the wireless communication device 19, and another wireless communication device 2 connected to the network 5 is transmitted.
4 to the network 5. Accordingly, the computer 6 receives the position information of the camera 16 itself transmitted from each camera 16 to the network 5.

The computer 6 performs the operation when the process corresponding to the work being performed is defined as required on the construction process plan 8 and the operation deviating from the process plan 8 as described above. If it is determined that the camera 1
The camera 16 installed near the corresponding work position is selected based on the position information from 6. And computer 6
Is a command for obtaining the azimuth of the work position from the difference between the position of the selected camera 16 and the work position indicated in the construction process plan 8, adjusting the direction of the camera 14 to the azimuth, and photographing the work position. Is transmitted to the camera 16 via the network 5.

The camera 16 follows a command from the computer 6 and
Aim at the designated direction, that is, the direction of the work position (place) to be photographed determined by the construction process plan 8, photograph the work position (for example, a still image and a moving image), and perform the work. Obtain the image information of the position. Camera 16
The image information of the work position obtained in step (1) is transmitted from the wireless communication device 19 to the computer 6 through the network 5. It should be noted that only the information on the work position is sent from the computer 6 and (GP
From the difference between the position of the camera 16 (measured by the S receiver 18) and the work position sent from the computer 6, the camera 16 itself obtains the azimuth of the work position and adjusts the direction of the camera 16. I do not care. If the camera 16 is of a fixed type, its position is known,
The receiver 18 becomes unnecessary.

When the computer 6 receives the image information of the work position transmitted from the camera 16, the computer 6 records the image information in the database 9 of the computer 6 in correspondence with the corresponding step on the construction process plan 8.

In the present system, the computer 6 is connected to a computer (remote computer) 21 installed at a remote location, for example, at an owner's office, for example, via the Internet 20 as remote communication means. The computer 21 checks and corrects information stored in the database 9 of the computer 6 by accessing the computer 6 via the Internet 20. Thereby, the progress of the construction can be grasped in real time from a remote place through the computer 21.

[0034]

According to the present invention, as described in detail above, the following effects can be obtained. (1) The location, time, and work content of the tool (when the tool is a wrench, tightening torque at the time of work) can be recorded in the database in association with a predetermined construction process plan. (2) It is possible to warn the operator when the position, order, work content, and the like of the work performed by the tool are different from the plan. (3) Work progress can be grasped in real time from a remote location.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a construction process management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a mutual relationship between respective elements constituting the system of FIG. 1 and an internal configuration of main elements in the system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Wrench tool (tool), 2, 14, 18 ... GPS receiver (self-position measuring means) 3, ... Tightening torque measuring instrument (work information measuring means), 4, 15, 19, 24 ... Wireless communication device (communication) 5) Network, 6 ... Computer (process management computer), 7 ... Construction drawing, 8 ... Construction process plan, 9 ... Database, 10 ... Information (information from tool) 11 ... Construction process management software (processing means) 12) Display / warning device (warning output means), 13 ... Display device, 16 ... Camera, 17 ... Photographing device, 20 ... Internet (remote communication means), 21 ... Computer (remote computer), 22 ... GPS Satellite, 23 ... GPS base station.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A construction process management system for managing construction processes in various types of construction, which is used for construction work, and measures its own position and tool-specific work information corresponding to the contents of work performed. A tool that has the function of transmitting measurement information to the network via communication means, measures its own position and orientation, and uses that measurement information to photograph the direction of the construction work location to be photographed. A camera having a function of transmitting photographed image information to the network by communication means, a computer for construction process management, measuring its own position, and transmitting the measured position information to the network via the network by the communication means. Warning output means for notifying a computer and outputting a warning to a worker in accordance with an instruction from the computer, wherein the computer is a management target Is a database that stores the construction drawings related to the construction and the construction process plan that defines the work location and the work content for each process, the construction drawings and the construction process plan, and the information obtained from the tools and the camera, A database for recording in association with the position information, a construction process plan in the database, and information obtained from the tool and the camera via the network by the position information, and linked to the database. While recording the actual work content, the consistency between the actual work content and the construction process plan is determined, and when it is determined that there is no consistency, the warning output means near the corresponding work location is determined. Is detected by the position information from the warning output means, and a warning output to the worker is output to the warning output means by the network. Construction process control system characterized in that it has a processing means for instructing through. 2. The computer for construction process management and a computer at a remote location are connected by remote communication means, and the contents of the database in the computer for construction process management are transmitted from the remote computer to the remote communication means. The construction process management system according to claim 1, wherein the construction process management system can be confirmed and corrected via a server.