Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have rapidly
evolved, becoming integral to various applications such as environmental monitoring …

Scan-to-BIM technology can help construction stakeholders to obtain accurate BIM models
for building information management and construction progress monitoring. The current …

Abstract 3D reconstruction plays a pivotal role in capturing the built environment's object
shapes and appearances for diverse smart applications, such as indoor navigation and …

Traditional indoor facility inspections on pipelines and boilers are conducted manually and
can be logistically challenging, labor-intensive, costly, and dangerous for the inspectors …

2 microclimate and urban morphology in a tropical city”, which is contributed by Chen et
al.[4]. The authors designed a software called ATLAS analysing the relationship between …

In this paper, we introduce a fault-tolerant multi-agent reinforcement learning framework
called SERT-DQN to optimize the operations of UAVs with UGV central control in coverage …

Maintaining a comfortable indoor environment is essential for enhancing occupant well-
being. However, traditional inspection methods rely on manual input of precise coordinates …

Deep learning-based point cloud semantic segmentation facilitates scene understanding
and BIM modelling, but its success requires vast amount of labelled point clouds, which is …

The construction industry is integrating robots into critical tasks at an accelerated pace, with
the aim of enhancing efficiency, safety, and productivity. However, construction tasks …

Indoor inspection robots operating in occupied buildings need to minimize disturbance to
occupants and access high areas of a room and cramped spaces obstructed by obstacles …