The recent increase in the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civilian usage stems mainly from modern technological advancements and the devices' abilities to …
With the pervasive use of Building Information Modelling (BIM), lean principles, digital technologies, and offsite construction, the industry is at the cusp of this transformation. The …
We report recent results from field experiments conducted with a team of ground and aerial robots toward the collaborative mapping of an earthquake damaged building. The goal of …
S Zhou, M Gheisari - Construction Innovation, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose Over the past decade, researchers have used unmanned aerial systems (UASs) in construction industry for various applications from site inspection to safety monitoring or …
MM Torok, M Golparvar-Fard… - Journal of Computing in …, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
Natural disasters all too often place human lives and property at risk. Recovery efforts following a disaster can be slow and painstaking work, and potentially put responders in …
Rescue robots have been used in at least 28 disasters in six countries since the first deployment to the 9/11 World Trade Center collapse. All types of robots have been used …
MR Freeman, MM Kashani… - Journal of Unmanned …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Aerial robotic technology has potential for use in a wide variety of civil engineering applications. Such technology potentially offers low-cost methods to replace expensive …
This paper presents an approach to localize a UAV in indoor environments using only a quasi-taut tether. In indoor GPS-denied environments, UAV localization usually depends on …
In this paper, we provide a review of the principal aspects related to search & rescue (SAR) with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with particular interest in the phase of post‐disaster …