Scene understanding in construction and buildings using image processing methods: A comprehensive review and a case study

M Arashpour, T Ngo, H Li - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Acquiring photos and videos has become a new norm in construction and building projects.
However, imagery data is not utilized effectively due to the shortage of required skillsets in …

[HTML][HTML] Revolutionizing construction and demolition waste sorting: Insights from artificial intelligence and robotic applications

S Dodampegama, L Hou, E Asadi, G Zhang… - Resources …, 2024 - Elsevier
The growing environmental concerns have emerged the necessity of sustainable waste
management of construction and demolition (C&D) wastes. This review explores the …

Real-time avoidance strategy of dynamic obstacles via half model-free detection and tracking with 2d lidar for mobile robots

H Dong, CY Weng, C Guo, H Yu… - IEEE/ASME transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Avoidance is a necessary capability for a mobile robot to perform tasks, such as delivering
objects in household or industrial scenarios. The existing avoidance strategy based on …

Bioinspired amphibious origami robot with body sensing for multimodal locomotion

H Dong, H Yang, S Ding, T Li, H Yu - Soft Robotics, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Animals have long captured the inspirations of researchers in robotics with their unrivaled
capabilities of multimodal locomotion on land and in water, achieved by functionally …

GSG: a granary-shaped soft gripper with mechanical sensing via snap-through structure

H Dong, CY Chen, C Qiu, CH Yeow… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotic grippers have attracted considerable attention in terms of the advantages of the
high compliance and robustness to variance in object geometry; however, they are still …

Object pose estimation via pruned hough forest with combined split schemes for robotic grasp

H Dong, DK Prasad, IM Chen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic grasp in complex open-world scenarios requires an effective and generalizable
perception. Estimating object's pose is needed in a variety of practical grasping scenarios …

Robotic manipulations of cylinders and ellipsoids by ellipse detection with domain randomization

H Dong, J Zhou, C Qiu, DK Prasad… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A lot of objects commonly found in industrial and household environments are represented
by cylindrical shapes (flange plates) and ellipsoids (oranges). The visual tops of cylindrical …

BiLuNetICP: A deep neural network for object semantic segmentation and 6D pose recognition

L Van Tran, HY Lin - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability of understanding a scene and predicting the pose of objects has attracted
significant interests in recent years. Specifically, it is used with visual sensors to provide the …

Enabling massage actions: An interactive parallel robot with compliant joints

H Dong, Y Feng, C Qiu, Y Pan, M He… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a parallel massage robot with compliant joints based on the series elastic
actuator (SEA), offering a unified force-position control approach. First, the kinematic and …

Learning-based ellipse detection for robotic grasps of cylinders and ellipsoids

H Dong, J Zhou, C Qiu, PK Dilip… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In our daily life, there are many objects represented by cylindrical shapes and ellipsoids.
The tops of these objects are formed by elliptic shape primitives. Thus, it is available for a …