A Presentation on Application of robotics in construction industry

1. APPLICATION OF ROBOTICS IN
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
PREPARED BY
RAHUL SINGH
GUIDED BY
PROF. R. KASHYAP
Department of Civil Engineering,GNIT,Nagpur

2. INTRODUCTION
A building robot is defined as an automated device
employed to perform a building task in a construction
site. It can also be defined as: “automatically operated
machines that replace human effort”. In other words, a
robot is a mechanism guided by automatic controls. Use
of Robotics in construction have been generating much
interest in the construction community from the last
two decades. Development of robotized concepts
started to emerge and even been tested over twenty
years ago.

3. OBJECTIVES OF PROJECT
The general objective of this project is to determine the use
of robotics in building construction.
 To review the literature for implementation of robotics in
building construction.
 To identify the workability of using robots in building
construction.
 To reduce time and save cost in building construction
using robotic applications.
 To draw conclusions regarding the extent of success of
building robots.

4. Need for Robots
Fast changing, field-based, industries like construction are
severely handicapped by their lack of accurate, timely and
systematic technical, cost and production data from ongoing
operations. The construction work requires highly skilled
workmen in order to achieve sufficient and consistent quality.
Robots have been designed to support human beings by helping
them to do tedious and dangerous works. The high expectations
of building robotics arrives from the very serious problems the
industry is facing such as :
 A high accident rate.
 Low quality.
 Insufficient control of the construction site.
 Vanishing of a skilled workforce.

5. SCOPE FOR FUTURE WORK
It is important to know the real status of building robotics today to
decide what future directions building robotics should take. The
robot has to be “site-friendly” i.e., well adapted to the particular
conditions of the building site. This involves:-
 Its performance as a system. All aspects of operation, movement,
materials feeding and transfer must be taken into account in
further development.
 Ensuring that its weight does not exceed the permitted level
load.
 Its ability to work capacity in restricted spaces.
 Its ability to perform different tasks, increasing the extent of its
use.
 The ability to operate in the rough conditions of the building site
with minimum maintenance requirements.