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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…
Foundation Models for Autonomous Robots in Unstructured Environments
Hossein Naderi, Alireza Shojaei, Lifu Huang
Automating activities through robots in unstructured environments, such as construction sites, has been a long-standing desire. However, the high degree of unpredictable events in…