Applying Automated and Robotic Means in Construction as a Factor for Providing Constructive Safety of Buildings and Structures

The paper considers introduction of automated and robotic means in the construction industry, in particular for building from block materials, and its possible impact at improvement of building process quality and reliability of buildings and structures. Currently, manual labor is used for most operations during the block-laying process. Unstable quality of manual labor causes numerous defects that are detected during the technical inspection and monitoring of buildings and structures. Simultaneously, the current technological level is enough high for developing automated and robotic means for main operations in the considered process. At the same time there is the issue of ensuring the quality of the operations performed by such devices. The most significant limiting factor is measurement means, like sensors and algorithms used for processing the data obtained from the sensors. Thus, the basic requirements to the measurement means based on the current standards have been formulated during this research. Applying the automated and robotic means meeting these requirements will allow improve the block-laying process qualitatively, both in terms of its performance and in terms of reliability of the resulting constructions