Research
What we work on
Automating the construction process end to end, in six stages.
The objective is a chain that runs from the survey of what exists to a finished building that keeps reporting its own data, without a manual transfer between any two stages. Today each stage needs someone to redraw, re-enter or re-measure what the stage before it produced.
- 01
Scan
Surveying the building as it stands, by drone or on the ground.
ISPRS Archives, 2024 → - 02
Computational and integrated design
The design generated from the survey, with the contribution of each party recorded on a shared ledger.
ISPRS IJGI 13(6), 2024 → - 03
Robot instructions
Toolpaths post-processed into multi-group programs a Fanuc controller accepts, rails included in the kinematic chain.
The cell → - 04
Construction
A rover with a collaborative arm laying walls on an open site. Full-scale demonstrator, 2023.
Construction Robotics 8, 2024 → - 05
Automatic site control
Measuring progress and deviation as part of the process rather than as a separate survey campaign. Not solved.
- 06
A building that stays connected
After handover the building keeps reporting its own data and the model keeps up with it. Not solved.
Open questions
Operational state
A model that reports what the building is doing now, when it last observed it, and how confidence decays between observations.
Federated twins
Several twins on one project, with different owners and update rates, made to agree where it matters without being merged into one model.
Pre-semantic scene proxy
A representation between raw capture and classified model: measurable, navigable, enough to drive a machine, produced before classification.
Long-horizon environmental twins
Twins meant to stay current for years rather than for the length of a contract.
Selection
What gets into this list
We follow one chain: survey what exists, turn it into a model that stays faithful, drive a machine from that model, and measure what came out. A paper enters the list when it reports a working step of that chain — with a site, a machine or a dataset behind it — and when it appeared in a venue we read regularly: Automation in Construction, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Developments in the Built Environment, Construction Robotics, the ISPRS journals and archives, and arXiv preprints in robotics and computer vision.
Reviews are in only when they map a step we work on. Position papers without a result are out. Our own papers are in the list and marked as such.
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