A Robotic Complex for Brick-Laying Applications

The paper deals with the problem of developing an automatically controlled complex of equipment to mechanize brick wall laying-one of the most difficult operations in construction. A research into economic and social aspects of this type of job enabled us to say that the system can be quite effective. An analysis of well-know efforts to adapt existing industrial robots for the purpose and a feasibility study led to conclusion that the most successful combination will be a synthesis of a special-purpose robot and an automatic machine with rigid logic. In this case, the bricks while moved to a specified brick-laying point by a robot. Data are given about possible composition of a robotic complex which can perform all operations, auxiliary jobs included.