Robots in inspection and monitoring of buildings and infrastructure: A systematic review

S Halder, K Afsari - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Regular inspection and monitoring of buildings and infrastructure, that is collectively called
the built environment in this paper, is critical. The built environment includes commercial and …

Digital twinning of civil infrastructures: Current state of model architectures, interoperability solutions, and future prospects

H Naderi, A Shojaei - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
The potential of using Digital Twins within the context of civil infrastructures has prompted a
focus on infrastructure digital twins (IDTs). Despite some attempts to provide an overview of …

Construction payment automation using blockchain-enabled smart contracts and robotic reality capture technologies

H Hamledari, M Fischer - Automation in Construction, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper introduces an autonomous payment administration solution, integrating
blockchain-enabled smart contracts and robotic reality capture technologies. The …

Role of blockchain-enabled smart contracts in automating construction progress payments

H Hamledari, M Fischer - Journal of legal affairs and dispute …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
The construction industry has long been plagued with late and nonpayments. Despite the
desired benefits of payment automation and today's increased access to digitized progress …

Computer vision-based interior construction progress monitoring: A literature review and future research directions

B Ekanayake, JKW Wong, AAF Fini, P Smith - Automation in construction, 2021 - Elsevier
Computer vision (CV)-based technologies have been used to automate construction
progress monitoring. The automation attempts to maximise precision and minimise human …

A review on UAV-based remote sensing technologies for construction and civil applications

S Guan, Z Zhu, G Wang - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
UAV-based technologies are evolving and improving at a rapid pace. The abundance of
solutions and systems available today can make it difficult to identify the best option for …

Construction inspection & monitoring with quadruped robots in future human-robot teaming: A preliminary study

S Halder, K Afsari, E Chiou, R Patrick… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Construction inspection and monitoring are key activities in construction projects.
Automation of inspection tasks can address existing limitations and inefficiencies of the …

Digital twin enabled real-time advanced control of TBM operation using deep learning methods

L Zhang, J Guo, X Fu, RLK Tiong, P Zhang - Automation in Construction, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper establishes a digital twin (DT) enabled model that aims to achieve real-time
monitoring and control to enhance the overall performance of tunnel boring machines (TBM) …

BIM–GIS integrated utilization in urban disaster management: the contributions, challenges, and future directions

Y Cao, C Xu, NM Aziz, SN Kamaruzzaman - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the 21st Century, disasters have severe negative impacts on cities worldwide. Given the
significant casualties and property damage caused by disasters, it is necessary for disaster …

Toward building and civil infrastructure reconstruction from point clouds: A review on data and key techniques

Y Xu, U Stilla - IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, point clouds acquired through laser scanning and stereo matching have
deemed to be one of the best sources for map** urban scenes. Spatial coordinates of 3-D …