5 papers
Decentralized autonomous organization and blockchain-based incentivization framework for community-based facilities management
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei, Xinghua Gao +2
Traditional facility management often relies on centralized decision-making structures that limit stakeholder participation, leading to misalignment with occupant needs and reduced…
Data-driven and distributed governance of building facilities management using decentralized autonomous organization, digital twin, and large language models
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei, Xinghua Gao +2
While traditional AI and data-driven facilities management approaches have improved building operational efficiency, they remain constrained by centralized organizational structure…
Zero-shot adaptable task planning for autonomous construction robots: a comparative study of lightweight single and multi-AI agent systems
Hossein Naderi, Alireza Shojaei, Lifu Huang +3
Robots are expected to play a major role in the future construction industry but face challenges due to high costs and difficulty adapting to dynamic tasks. This study explores the…
Impact of Robot Facial-Audio Expressions on Human Robot Trust Dynamics and Trust Repair
Hossein Naderi, Alireza Shojaei, Philip Agee +2
Despite recent advances in robotics and human-robot collaboration in the AEC industry, trust has mostly been treated as a static factor, with little guidance on how it changes acro…
Autonomous Construction-Site Safety Inspection Using Mobile Robots: A Multilayer VLM-LLM Pipeline
Hossein Naderi, Alireza Shojaei, Philip Agee +2
Construction safety inspection remains mostly manual, and automated approaches still rely on task-specific datasets that are hard to maintain in fast-changing construction environm…