Actuation Confirmation and Negation via Facial-Identity and -Expression Recognition

This paper presents the implementation of a facial-identity and-expression recognition mechanism that confirms or negates physical and/or computational actuations in an intelligent built-environment. Said mechanism is built via Google Brain's TensorFlow (as regards facial identity recognition) and Google Cloud Platform's Cloud Vision API (as...

Design and Development of a Novel Robotic Gripper for Automated Scaffolding Assembly

Scaffolding assembly constitutes a potentially dangerous and time-consuming task within the construction process. In most industrialized nations, said assembly is the process in which most of the causalities of the Construction Industry happen, especially in projects characterized by high complexity and restricted operation space. The...