Construction robots continue to be increasingly deployed on construction sites to assist
human workers in various tasks to improve safety, efficiency, and productivity. Due to the …

A significant advancement in automated driving technology and the deployment of it have
noticeably increased the safety of humans in transportation, industry, and the construction …

This paper presents an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to optimize
the coefficients of the proportional integral derivative (PID) controller for trajectory tracking …

Along with increasing innovations in frontier engineering sciences, the advancement in
Robotic Autonomous Systems (RAS) has brought about a new horizon in earthmoving …

Today, many construction operations have incorporated automated equipment, means, and
methods into their regular practises. Although adaption of automation in the building …

Mechanical interaction with objects is arguably one of the fundamentally important robot
behaviors. Many current robot applications require it; for example, mechanical interaction is …

Active compliant control enables to quickly and freely adjust the properties and dynamic
behavior of interactions of mechanisms within certain limits. According to the emerging …

This letter presents a novel planning and control approach for autonomous excavation that
is independent of the soil composition and goes beyond a single dig. In contrast to the …

It is necessary to identify and compensate the non-linear friction to improve the
performances of the electro-hydraulic system of robotic excavators. The mathematical model …

This paper discusses the results of a survey regarding state of the art and possible future
opportunities for the application of robotic technologies in the construction industry. The …