with the intensification of labor force reducing and population aging, traditional labor-intensive industries, such as engineering construction industry, also have to face the cruel reality of increasing pressure, such as the shortage of labor, the increase of employment cost and the extension of construction period. In order to ease this practical difficulty, taking the subdivision direction of engineering construction which is asphalt pavement construction field as an example, this paper combs and discusses the current situation of research and application of driverless construction equipment technology in recent three years, hoping to provide reference for personnel in the engineering industry on the one hand, and provide ideas for the rapid progress of the engineering construction industry towards driverless and intelligent direction on the other hand.