A competitive, market oriented and rationalized construction tomorrow requires developing of automated and robotized construction system today. This includes industrialized process originating in a mining, construction material production, prefabrication of construction components, on site construction, facility management, rehabilitation and recycling. Today’s construction projects are charact...

We present a protocol for the fully automated construction of quantum mechanical (QM)–classical hybrid models by extending our previously reported approach on self-parametrizing system-focused atomistic (SFAMs) [Brunken, C.; Reiher, M. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2020, 16, 3, 1646?1665]. In this QM/SFAM approach, size and composition QM region are evaluated in an manner based first principles so th...

Automated and robust retrieval of three-dimensional (3D) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) objects from laser scanned data would have many potentially valuable applications in construction engineering and management. For example, it would enable automated progress assessment for effortless productivity tracking, automated 3D image database searching for forensic and legal analysis, and real-time loca...

Robots were originally introduced in the production of industrialized building components and modular housing. Later mobile robots were developed for special on-site construction tasks. Automated construction sites use robotics for logistics and assembly. The technological progress of robotics allows recently the automated production of facades, which is described in this keynote.

Modern neuroscientific research stands on the shoulders of countless giants. PubMed alone contains more than 21 million peer-reviewed articles with 40-50,000 more published every month. Understanding the human brain, cognition, and disease will require integrating facts from dozens of scientific fields spread amongst millions of studies locked away in static documents, making any such integrati...

For automatizing building construction systems with robots, the WASCOR (WASeda Construction Robot) IV research project has been organized since 1992 by System Science Institute, Waseda University. This multi-client research project includes nine general constructors and one construction machinery manufacturer. The purpose of this paper is to report a pert of the research results of the final ye...

Virtual agents are used by the military for extensive training of pilots. However, creating virtual agents with the appropriate behaviors is a lengthy and specialized process. We describe a new tool (TAF) to allow rapid creation of virtual adversarial agents by non-specialized personnel. In TAF, users can draw diagrams of agent behavior which are matched within a pre-existing knowledge base. By...