There have been recent efforts to increase the degree of automation and frequency of data
collection for construction applications using Unmanned Aerial/Ground Vehicles …

This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to
successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real world operations. From …

The construction industry is a major economic sector, but it is plagued with inefficiencies and
low productivity. Robotics and automated systems have the potential to address these …

Additive manufacturing has drawn significant attention in both academia and industry due to
its capabilities and promising potential in various sectors. However, the adoption of this …

The additive manufacturing of real scale structures using UAVs (drones) is a new discipline
with challenges as wide as the possibilities it opens up for the future. UAVs must not be seen …

This review summarizes the most recent advances from technological and physico-chemical
perspectives to improve several remaining issues in polymeric materials' additive …

Over the past decades, robotics has shown great potential to impact the built environment,
from automation to differentiation and efficient construction. However, construction …

This tutorial chapter will teach readers how to use ROS to fly a small quadcopter both
individually and as a group. We will discuss the hardware platform, the Bitcraze Crazyflie …

This article presents a method for herding a swarm of adversarial agents toward a safe area
in a 2-D obstacle environment. The team of defending agents (defenders) aims to block the …

With the emergence of Industry 4.0, the use of robotic technologies is among today's trends.
The innovations that this revolution brought to robotic construction in the fields of …