A Study on Core Technologies and Technological Innovation Strategies for Construction Automation

Abstract

The construction industry faces several challenges to increase its importance to the economic growth of the Korea's economy and competitiveness in the world construction market. These challenges include safety, productivity, quality, technology, and foreign competition issues. Construction automation is considered as one of key solutions to the challenges. In these paper, the various materials on construction automation and robotics are reviewed, the automation research patterns of foreign countries and Korea are compared, and the developed construction equipment and systems are analyzed in terms of time and cost. And, Five technology areas with core technologies, which make it possible to move toward overall automation of construction operations and toward commercialization of construction robot, are analyzed. Finally, some strategic approaches to develop the innovative construction technology are proposed and the roles of the participants in a construction automation research are defined.