Planning Principles for Enhancing the Implementation of a Mobile Robot on the Construction Site

The main difference between industrial robots which are applied to the prefabrication of building components and the construction robots which are mostly used for on-site work, is its mobility based on interaction with the environment through sensors and built-in intelligence, and the need to cope with the specific conditions on the construction site. The technology needed for these purposes already exists, and can be modified for the particular building task. But nevertheless the implementation of such machines has proved to be difficult for different reasons. The problem is not the robot itself but rather an integrated system of a robot-oriented construction and building process which is essential for an economic implementation of this technology. The economic success of on-site automation is predetermined very early in the whole process. So the main question is: What are the facts / constraints / impacts / conditions which architects and planners have to consider in order to simplify or even to enable automation in later stages of the construction realisation and what kind of tools and aids can be provided? In this paper planning principles for enhancing the implementation of a mobile robot on the construction site are introduced. Reengineering the whole process these principles produce an optimization of project results in general.