Aug 2026· Buildings· Vol 16, pp. 3070· 0 citations· 18 references
Abstract
Construction sites are beginning to deploy material transport robots to relieve labor constraints; however, planning and validating robot operations within complex, evolving building layouts remain difficult. This study proposes a BIM-enabled simulation framework that connects building information to enable an objective pre-deployment evaluation. The method extracts navigable spaces, delivery points and material quantities from BIM, formulates dispatching as a capacity-constrained vehicle routing problem, and couples it with an A* algorithm for pathfinding. A greedy next-stop decision rule with a tunable correction factor governs whether the robot continues visiting additional stops or returns to the staging area. The experimental results show a more than 20% improvement in the travel efficiency of the robot compared with conventional algorithms. These results conclude that the framework offers a practical tool for what-if analysis and data-driven planning of robotized construction logistics and is readily extensible to diverse materials and project types.
The adoption of robotics in construction has progressed more slowly than in many other sectors. Building information models (BIMs) contain information that can support construction robotics, while robots require task-specific project data, such as geometry, location, material, sequence, and operating constraints, that...
Austin D. McClymonds, Somayeh Asadi, Robert M. Leicht· Intelligent Infrastructure a...· 0 citations
The study concludes that construction robots should not be framed as simple substitutes for human labor and their more realistic role is to augment workers in hazardous, repetitive, precision-demanding, and data-intensive tasks while supporting a gradual transition from experience-based construction management to data-...
Yizhuo Li· Applied and Computational En...· 0 citations
Digital twin technology is increasingly used to support the analysis and optimisation of smart manufacturing systems, particularly where flexible intra-plant logistics are required. This study develops a digital twin-enabled simulation-optimisation framework for improving material transportation between assembly and te...
Arora Arvind, Mohandass Muthukrishnan, Prakash Thirumalachari et al.· Asian Journal of Advanced Re...· 0 citations
Multi-robot systems have shown increasing viability in construction due to their ability to execute high-precision actions while reducing human exposure to hazardous tasks. However, these environments have high-dimensional configuration spaces and possess substantial collision-avoidance constraints, which include other...
Karthik Shaji, Chisung Kim, John D'Amato et al.· 0 citations
The development of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) has caused a major shift in the way that the manufacturing industry works, especially in terms of how material flows through the factory environment, a key signature of industry 4.0 where a manufacturing environment is required to p...
Pratik Prajapati, Yetish Rane, A. Mahajan et al.· International Conference on...· 0 citations
Smart manufacturing and logistics robots require integrated navigation capabilities. Optimized global routing, fast obstacle avoidance, and stable trajectory generation are all necessary. In this paper, we develop a hybrid path planner. An enhanced A* algorithm is combined with the Dynamic Window Approach (DWA). We int...
Xiao-Ming Zhang· ICST Transactions on Scalabl...· 0 citations
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