Abstract
The creation of modern high-speed highways is a priority area of road construction. The use of new laying technologies depends on the properties and structure of road construction materials, which are used not only for the formation of the coating, but also for the preparation of the bases. The paper considers the basic principles of various theories of compaction of materials, which allow us to conclude that the existing compaction technique has a number of significant negative aspects. In this regard, it is possible to create adaptive working bodies with a controlled force effect on the material. Currently, the use of mechanisms for adapting to the compacted material in the practice of road construction is limited, due to the complexly regulated control of compaction parameters based on feedback, which is often used in the modern robotics industry.