Automation of Road Construction - The State of the Art in Europe

Heikkilä, Rauno; Jaakkola, Mika

doi:10.22260/isarc2006/0003

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“…These approaches mainly rely on pre-planned path calculations and lack flexible decision and reaction on changing conditions [5,7,8]. Other related approaches, e.g.…”

Section: Related Work In the Field Of Assistance Systems For Compactomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…automated surface crack detection and autonomous sealing of asphalt pavement, focus on road maintenance rather than road construction [9,10]. Real-time sensory inputs are often not considered [7,11] and information about environmental conditions are not incorporated in the path calculations [12][13][14]. Table 1 shows some of the recent approaches in assistance systems for compactor operators within the literature and reports about evaluations results as well as differences to our approach.…”

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SmartSite: Intelligent and autonomous environments, machinery, and processes to realize smart road construction projects

Kuenzel

Teizer²,

Mueller

et al. 2016

Automation in Construction

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“…These approaches mainly rely on pre-planned path calculations and lack flexible decision and reaction on changing conditions [5,7,8]. Other related approaches, e.g.…”

Section: Related Work In the Field Of Assistance Systems For Compactomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Work In the Field Of Assistance Systems For Compactomentioning

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SmartSite: Intelligent and autonomous environments, machinery, and processes to realize smart road construction projects

Kuenzel

Teizer²,

Mueller

et al. 2016

Automation in Construction

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“…Logistics chain of a road construction site during black-top assembly Each step is susceptible to numerous disruptions and the paving crew on site as the focal point of the whole system often lacks information about disruptions at upstream logistical steps. Research and practice concerning this problem are based on proprietary, isolated, and in parts heterogeneous data structures [4]. Furthermore, current solutions are focused on performance monitoring and on documentation subsequent to the construction phase rather than on supporting machine operators during construction and on an operational level.…”

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SmartSite: Intelligent and Autonomous Environments, Machinery, and Processes to Realize Smart Road Construction Projects

Kuenzel¹,

Mueller²,

Teizer³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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This article presents an overview of the SmartSite research project that adopts machine learning, decision theory and distributed artificial intelligence to design and test a multi-agent system (MAS) for asphalt road construction. SmartSite puts major emphasis on sensing and communication technologies that integrate real-time automated information exchange in the supply chain of road construction. As part of the larger SmartSite project, this article introduces a novel real-time path planning system for compactors. It operates based on BDI software agents and real-time sensory inputs. The newly developed integrated and information rich process benefits asphalt compactor operators, as they are now capable to control their machinery and react to changing environmental, materialrelated and process-related disturbances or changes. This improves the quality of the delivery and laying of asphalt material, prevents compactors from overcompacting certain road segments, increases the road's pavement longevity during the operational life cycle phase; refocuses the work tasks of the site managers, and reduces the construction budget and schedule.

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“…The ongoing increase in use of automation in road construction and maintenance is a clear signal about the economic benefits achieved by automation, i.e. three-dimensional process and different automated tools through the main phases of the measurement, design, construction, and maintenance processes (Heikkilä et al 2006). There have been only a few scientific papers focused on the economic benefits and savings achieved by the aid of automation for road processes-no detailed and comprehensive research has been reported.…”

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Dynamic Management of Road Construction Operations on Site

Heikkilä¹,

Tiitinen²

2013

Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining (ISARC 2013): Building Th

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Today road construction sites utilize more and more information modeling in design phases as well as model based 3-D machine control systems in site operations. For main contractor, the management and control of all the site operations is a demanding task including also many challenges created by continuously developing new technology. In the paper, the main requirements for successful dynamic site management are introduced. The dynamic management means real-time possibilities for information acquiring, transfer and further utilization of the information in the management. An integration model to expand the current way of management and the utilization of present 3-D machine control systems is introduced. Different practical test results using two new different dynamic management systems are presented and evaluated. The first experiments and the results have been provided using the prototype system developed in a research project called DigiINFRA by the University of Oulu and Technical Research Center of Finland. Also, there have been tested a new commercial management system developed recently in Finland. In the conclusion, an expectation for the next generation for more dynamic road construction management methods is concluded.

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Automation of Road Construction - The State of the Art in Europe

Cited by 8 publications

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SmartSite: Intelligent and autonomous environments, machinery, and processes to realize smart road construction projects

SmartSite: Intelligent and autonomous environments, machinery, and processes to realize smart road construction projects

SmartSite: Intelligent and Autonomous Environments, Machinery, and Processes to Realize Smart Road Construction Projects

Dynamic Management of Road Construction Operations on Site

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