Digital twin and industry 4.0 enablers in building and construction: a survey

W Hu, KYH Lim, Y Cai - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
With increasing interest in automatic and intelligent systems to enhance the building and
construction industry, digital twins (DT) are gaining popularity as cost-effective solutions to …

Technologies, levels and directions of crane-lift automation in construction

A Zhu, Z Zhang, W Pan - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
Crane-lift operations are critical in construction. With the advancement of information and
communications technologies, crane-lift automation (CLA) has been increasingly explored …

Adaptive output feedback control for 5-DOF varying-cable-length tower cranes with cargo mass estimation

Y Wu, N Sun, H Chen, Y Fang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tower crane systems exhibit high nonlinearity and underactuation, making the control issue
challenging. Most reported methods for tower crane systems utilize linearized models, and …

Nonlinear motion control of complicated dual rotary crane systems without velocity feedback: Design, analysis, and hardware experiments

N Sun, Y Fu, T Yang, J Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a class of underactuated systems, cooperative dual rotary crane systems (DRCSs) are
widely used to complete the task of large payload transportation in complex environments …

Reinforcement learning-based simulation and automation for tower crane 3D lift planning

SH Cho, SU Han - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Tower crane lift planning is important to timely provide resources to workplaces. However,
previous planning approaches are still impractical because the lifting time of a plan is barely …

Crane-lift path planning for high-rise modular integrated construction through metaheuristic optimization and virtual prototy**

A Zhu, Z Zhang, W Pan - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy crane lifting in high-rise modular integrated construction (MiC) is critical but
challenging. The current crane-lift executions are heavily reliant on human judgment. Few …

Estimating and visualizing the exposure to tower crane operation hazards on construction sites

S Hu, Y Fang, R Moehler - Safety science, 2023 - Elsevier
As an increasing number of building components are modularized and prefabricated, tower
cranes are required to lift larger and heavier loads. This situation increased the risk of crane …

Automatic re-planning of lifting paths for robotized tower cranes in dynamic BIM environments

S Dutta, Y Cai, L Huang, J Zheng - Automation in Construction, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Computer-Aided Lift Planning (CALP) systems provide smart and optimal solutions
for automatic crane lifting, supported by intelligent decision-making and planning algorithms …

Programming-based optimal learning sliding mode control for cooperative dual ship-mounted cranes against unmatched external disturbances

Y Qian, D Hu, Y Chen, Y Fang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When lifting and transporting large payloads in the marine environment, the dual ship-
mounted crane system plays a very important role for cargos transportation, which exhibits …

Heavy mobile crane lift path planning in congested modular industrial plants using a robotics approach

N Kayhani, H Taghaddos, A Mousaei… - Automation in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lift path planning is a significant subtask in constructability analysis, sequencing, and
scheduling of congested industrial modular projects, impacting project cost, and safety …