On-site autonomous construction robots: Towards unsupervised building

N Melenbrink, J Werfel, A Menges - Automation in construction, 2020 - Elsevier
Real-world construction projects typically require three groups of tasks: site preparation
(earthmoving, leveling), substructure (anchoring, foundations), and superstructure (load …

A review of collective robotic construction

KH Petersen, N Napp, R Stuart-Smith, D Rus… - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
The increasing need for safe, inexpensive, and sustainable construction, combined with
novel technological enablers, has made large-scale construction by robot teams an active …

A framework for robotic excavation and dry stone construction using on-site materials

RL Johns, M Wermelinger, R Mascaro, D Jud… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Automated building processes that enable efficient in situ resource utilization can facilitate
construction in remote locations while simultaneously offering a carbon-reducing alternative …

Beyond pick-and-place: Tackling robotic stacking of diverse shapes

AX Lee, CM Devin, Y Zhou, T Lampe… - … Conference on Robot …, 2021 - openreview.net
We study the problem of robotic stacking with objects of complex geometry. We propose a
challenging and diverse set of such objects that was carefully designed to require strategies …

Visual imitation made easy

S Young, D Gandhi, S Tulsiani… - … on Robot Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Visual imitation learning provides a framework for learning complex manipulation behaviors
by leveraging human demonstrations. However, current interfaces for imitation such as …

Towards automating construction tasks: Large‐scale object map**, segmentation, and manipulation

R Mascaro, M Wermelinger, M Hutter… - Journal of Field …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Automating building processes through robotic systems has the potential to address the
need for safer, more efficient, and sustainable construction operations. While ongoing …

Autonomous dry stone: On-site planning and assembly of stone walls with a robotic excavator

RL Johns, M Wermelinger, R Mascaro, D Jud… - Construction …, 2020 - Springer
On-site robotic construction not only has the potential to enable architectural assemblies that
exceed the size and complexity practical with laboratory-based prefabrication methods, but …

Active learning of abstract plan feasibility

M Noseworthy, C Moses, I Brand, S Castro… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Long horizon sequential manipulation tasks are effectively addressed hierarchically: at a
high level of abstraction the planner searches over abstract action sequences, and when a …