Automation in construction is one of the important issues in the field of robotics, but is distinct from factory automation (FA). Because of variations in materials and management, the role of automation in construction is often limited. A curtain wall is a large, heavy breakable object and requires precision installation, making it a better candidate for automated installation. A curtain-wall ...

The NIST Construction Metrology and Automation Group, in cooperation with the NIST Intelligent Systems Division, is researching robotic structural steel placement as part of a project to develop an Automated Steel Construction Testbed. This project was initiated in response to industry requests for advanced tools and methodologies to speed the erection of steel structures while maintaining or e...

The issue of end game database construction is known and well-studied in various specific gaming domains like the Chess and the Checkers. However with arrival of General Game Playing (GGP) challenge the automatic construction of end game databases attracted focus again. The current paper presents the sound and complete algorithm for automated construction of end game databases within the GGP se...

The face Detection methodsis used in order to provide security. The mentioned methods problems are that it cannot be categorized because of the great differences and varieties in the face of individuals. In this paper, face Detection methods has been presented for overcoming upon these problems based on skin color datum. The researcher gathered a face database of 30 individuals consisting of ov...

As a result of automated construction methods, which many construction companies have worked on these days. Consequently, the following construction planning systems are needed .1) the best framework partition plan, 2) the best layout plan of the hardware and the best usage plan of workers at the construction site, 3) the output of the stage of execution works, in a short period of time. This s...

this study analyses the concept of cost functions for semi-automated straddle carrier (sc), rubber tyred gantry (rtg) and automated rail mounted gantry (rmg) container yard operating cranes. it develops a generic cost based model for a pair-wise comparison, analysis and evaluation of economic efficiency and effectiveness of container yard equipment to be used for decision-making by terminal pla...

In this paper we present a novel method for reliable recognition of construction workers and their actions using color and depth data from a Microsoft Kinect sensor. Our algorithm is based on machine learning techniques, in which meaningful visual features are extracted based on the estimated body pose of workers. We adopt a bag-of-poses representation for worker actions and combine it with pow...

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology facilitates high throughput, high speed and cost-effective sequencing of DNA and/or RNA. One key application of NGS is to analyze whole transcriptome of cells. Analysis of transcriptome reveals the gene expression information, detects post transcriptional mutations, quantification of gene expression profiling in a certain disease development pathway. ...

Tissue microarray (TMA) is a high throughput analysis tool to identify new diagnostic and prognostic markers in human cancers. However, standard automated method in tumour detection on both routine histochemical and immunohistochemistry (IHC) images is under developed. This paper presents a robust automated tumour cell segmentation model which can be applied to both routine histochemical tissue...

Preface On the history of the book: In the early 1990s several new methods and perspectives in automated deduction emerged. We just mention the superposition calculus, meta-term inference and schematization, deductive decision procedures, and automated model building. It was this last field which brought the authors of this book together. In 1994 they met at the Conference on Automated Deductio...