Digital Twinning Technologies for Sustainable Robotic Automation and Digital Management of Construction
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 253
Special Issue Editors
Interests: construction management; robotic automation; total scene understanding; live digital twinning
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: digital twin; building information modeling; scan-to-BIM; automation; artificial intelligence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, entitled “Digital Twinning Technologies for Sustainable Robotic Automation and Digital Management of Construction”. Although at a nascent stage, the field of construction robotics and the digitization of fieldwork is central to the future of the construction industry. Robotic automation and digitization will improve the productivity and profitability of a wide spectrum of construction projects while mitigating labor shortages, greatly benefiting project owners and contractors. Nowadays, there is a soaring need for sustainable solutions for robotic automation and digital management of construction practices.
This Special Issue covers advanced technologies for the sustainable digital twinning of in-progress construction projects. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced modalities/methods for real-time 3D reconstruction.
- Multimodal digital twinning during the construction phase.
- Deep neural network (DNN)-powered computer vision models for total scene understanding.
- Data generation or synthetization methods for construction DNN training.
- Generative AI-based scene inference.
- Scan-to-BIM.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Daeho Kim
Dr. Jongwon Ma
Dr. Gaang Lee
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital twinning
- construction robotics
- robot vision
- computer vision
- 3D reconstruction
- multimodal total scene understanding
