Construction Robotics - Call for Papers - Robotics and AI
Guest Editor:
Dr. Madeline Gannon, Florida International University, USA
Submission status: Open | Submission deadline: 15 April 2024
Description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a cultural moment this year: the abstract ideas and algorithms of these complex systems have left the lab to touch our lives in new, mind expanding ways. Generative AI - and in particular generative image-making and large language models - have humbled and inspired us to rethink how architects and designers can contribute to the field of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC).
Yet despite this cultural zeitgeist, machine learning and artificial intelligence are nothing new in robotics. In fact, these techniques are the cornerstone of how robots have navigated, reasoned, and manipulated the world around them for decades.
This Special Issue invites submissions of research articles that explore the impact of AI on the holistic process of construction. Although “AI” can be a catch-all term, there are a multitude of segments in AEC where smart, adaptive systems can help us better transform intangible ideas to physical realities.
In particular, we seek to promote a broad spectrum of research that innovates across AEC segments: from construction workforce education, to enhanced worker safety, novel human-machine interfaces, construction-aware design tools, material management systems, mobile on-site construction robots, autonomous site surveying, or predictive life cycle analysis tools. We see the immense possibilities of AI to help us do more with less, and encourage submissions that are demonstrably pulling us towards this future.
This call is directed towards, but not limited to, the following:
- Generative Design-to-Construction Workflows
- Robotic Apprenticeship
- Augmented Construction Tools
- Gestural and Natural Language Interfaces for Robotic Construction
- Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration
- Heterogeneous Robotic Systems for Construction
- Autonomous Site Surveying
- Educational Tools for Construction
- Task Planning for Robotic Construction
- Novel Construction Robots
- Robotics & Large Language Models (LLMs)
Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at: https://www.springer.com/journal/41693/submission-guidelines. Authors should submit through the online submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select article type “SI - Robotics and AI".
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least two independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.
Meet the Guest Editor:
Dr. Madeline Gannon is a multidisciplinary designer blending techniques in art, design, computer science, and robotics to forge new futures for human-robot relations. Also known as "The Robot Whisperer", Dr. Gannon specializes in convincing robots to do things they were never intended to do: from transforming giant industrial robots into living, breathing mechanical creatures, to taming hordes of autonomous machines to behave like a pack of animals.
Dr. Gannon believes that technology is a cultural medium, and tunes her work to engage communities across science and society. Her works have been exhibited at international cultural institutions, published at academic conferences, and profiled at global media outlets, such as the BBC, the Guardian, FT, the Science Channel, WIRED, FastCompany, Dezeen, and The Verge.
Dr. Gannon is a World Economic Forum Cultural Leader, a Knight Foundation Awardee, a former Robotics & AI Researcher at NVIDIA, and a former artist in residence at ETH Zurich, Autodesk Pier 9, and the Carnegie Mellon STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. She is known as one of the 'Top 10 Women in Robotics Industry' and 'World’s 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics’ according to Analytics Insight. Dr. Gannon holds a Masters of Architecture from Florida International University, and a Ph.D in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University.