Guest Editorial Introduction to the Focused Section on Mechatronics and Automation for Constructions

Rapid advances in modern technologies have completely revolutionized many industries in recent years. It is anticipated that mechatronic and automation technologies would play an important role in transforming the construction industry to embrace for the fourth industrial revolution. However, constr...

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Published in:IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics 2021-12, Vol.26 (6), p.2819-2825
Main Authors: Cheah, Chien Chern, Bock, Thomas, Cao, Jianfu, Linner, Thomas, Liu, Yun-Hui, Yamashita, Atsushi, Yang, Liman
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptive control
Artificial intelligence
Automation
Construction
Construction industry
Construction sites
Heavy vehicles
Inspection
Internet of Things
Machine vision
Mechatronics
Process management
Robot sensing systems
Robotics
Robust control
Service robots
Special issues and sections
Subsystems
Working conditions
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Summary:Rapid advances in modern technologies have completely revolutionized many industries in recent years. It is anticipated that mechatronic and automation technologies would play an important role in transforming the construction industry to embrace for the fourth industrial revolution. However, construction automation problems bring up new research challenges that diverge from traditional methods. Unlike the factory environment, which is typically structured and predictable, construction sites are dynamic places where the working environment is unstructured and always changing. Due to lack of skilled labor, time and cost overruns, quality deficiencies, and the recent pandemics, mechatronic and automation technologies offer solutions for future safe, rapid, performative, prize worthy, and digitally protocolled construction projects. The coexistence of human workers, heavy vehicles, varying environmental conditions, and automated mechatronic systems also make safe human–machine interaction an important issue. Beyond expertise in a specific discipline, construction automation also requires multidisciplinary expertise to integrate with various fields, such as Internet of Things (IOT), robotics and its construction oriented subsystems, adaptive/robust control, machine vision, sensing technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), and building/construction/process information modeling (BIM/CIM/PIM) for automated construction process management and design. The main aims of this focused section in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH) are to document the current state of the art in mechatronics and automation for constructions, and to present new results in several emerging research areas.
ISSN:1083-4435
1941-014X
DOI:10.1109/TMECH.2021.3127237