Investigating the use of unmanned plant machinery on construction sites

Barlow, Chris, Prior, Stephen D., Erbil, Mehmet Ali, Lewis, Darren, Brazinskas, Mantas, Mielniczek, Witold, Bell, Jonathon, Irps, Thomas and Karamanoglu, Mehmet ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5049-2993 (2010) Investigating the use of unmanned plant machinery on construction sites. International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering Systems, 2010 . pp. 270-275. ISSN 2152-1522 [Article]

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Abstract

The UK Construction Sector has been estimated to contribute 8% of the UK’s GDP [1]. The worldwide recession has forced construction companies to introduce and adopt cost saving measures to increase productivity. Several robotic building systems are in development for the Construction Sector such as the PERI’s Automatic Climbing System [2] and Brokk’s remote-controlled demolition machines [3], but there has been little implementation on live sites. Construction sites by their very nature are dynamically changing environments, so if human input was removed entirely, a robot would need a high level of awareness of the current state of the building project in order to navigate and carry out its tasks.

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