Construction progress monitoring involves a set of inspection tasks with repetitive in-person observations on the site. The current manual inspection process in construction is time-consuming, inefficient and inconsistent mainly due to human limitations in the ability to persistently and accurately walkthrough the job site and observe the as-built status of which robots are considerably better.
Dr. Kereshmeh Afsari and Srijeet Halder presented at the "Advanced Technologies in the Built Environment (ATBE) Workshop" organized by the US Army's Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Information Technology Laboratory. The presentation discussed the potential of using robots in the inspection and monitoring of the construction projects.
Dr. Afsari with PhD student Srijeet Halder offered two sessions in the C-Tech^2 summer camps on June 27th and July 1st, 2022, to 32 students in total. C-Tech^2 is a two-week summer residential camp for rising junior and senior high school young women. A primary focus of the program is to help develop and sustain the interests of young women in engineering. The team presented real-world applications of robots for construction inspection and monitoring and provided hands-on robotic activities for the participants in a fun and exciting way.
