Site Automation
Automated/Robotic On-Site Factories

Site Automation extends the new technology of robotics in building-component manufacturing and construction to on-site structured environments and on-site automated factories.

Thomas Bock (Author), Thomas Linner (Author)

9781107075979, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 April 2016

329 pages, 463 b/w illus. 9 tables
26 x 18.3 x 2 cm, 0.89 kg

The Cambridge Handbooks in Construction Robotics discuss progress in robot systems theory and demonstrate their integration using real systematic applications and projections for off-site as well as on-site building production. Site Automation extends the new technology of robotics in building-component manufacturing and construction introduced in earlier volumes to on-site structured environments and on-site automated factories. This volume explores 30 different worldwide systems within a careful analytical framework in which the best conceptual features are extracted in order to help professionals and researchers develop new applications. The analytical approach splits the systems studies into a technical portion and a portion that focuses on parameters related to productivity, efficiency, and economic performance. A benefit of automated on-site factories is the integration of several stand-alone, single-task construction robots into structured on-site environments with networked machine systems to show improvements in on-site organization, integration, and material flow.

1. Integrated automated/robotic on-site factories
2. Analysis and categorization: construction
3. Analysis and categorization: deconstruction
4. Conclusion: discrepancy between technical capability and efficiency.

Subject Areas: Human-computer interaction [UYZ], Artificial intelligence [UYQ], Building construction & materials [TNK], Structural engineering [TNC], Civil engineering, surveying & building [TN]