Concept of module carrier robot for smart variable space

The methods which improve space usage efficiency is important especially for city lives. Development of high-rise buildings and underground are one of the methods. However, those developments just lay out the spaces which are expanded in plane into vertical. Therefore, there are the physical and monetary limitations. Instead of stacking of single function spaces, the spaces which can change its functions easily/automatically depending on the situations are necessary to increase space use efficiency. Therefore, we propose Smart Variable Space which realizes various functional spaces by changing its spatial configuration modules (sModules) dynamically. In previous research, bedroom and kitchen wagon type module were developed. However each module had movement mechanisms even though they were only used in changing layout of the space. It caused heavy weight and high cost of the modules. In this paper, we proposed common module carrier for sModules.