Owing to the specific characteristics of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), the demands and
applications increase dramatically for them being deployed in confined or closed space for …

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 …

Abstract The deployment of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) offers a promising solution
for addressing spatial inefficiency and non-detection zone challenges of the Indoor …

To combat the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, many new ways have been proposed on how to
automate the process of finding infected people, also called contact tracing. A special focus …

The emergency we are experiencing due to the coronavirus infection is changing the role of
technologies in our daily life. In particular, movements of persons need to be monitored or …

Building engineers need access to real-time data to make retrofit decisions or improve the
energy performance of the building occupants. Such data is typically gathered with the help …

Autonomous or teleoperated robots have been playing increasingly important roles in civil
applications in recent years. Across the different civil domains where robots can support …

A robot can accurately localize itself and navigate in an indoor environment based on
information about the operating environment, often called a world or a map. While typical …

Nowadays, positioning technologies are used in a wide variety of areas such as providing
driving directions and tracking valuable goods to name a few. Since the introduction of the …

Deep learning has made great advances in the field of image processing, which allows
automotive devices to be more widely used in humans' daily lives than ever before …