Minghui Wu

University of Michigan | U-M · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

The evaluation of mechanical property degradation (i.e., stiffness and strength degradation) for seismically damaged reinforced concrete (RC) components is a critical step in the post‐earthquake assessment of the residual seismic capacity of buildings. In this study, a novel approach based on deep learning (DL) was proposed to evaluate the stiffnes...

As an important contributor to GDP growth, the construction industry is suffering from labor shortage due to population ageing, COVID-19 pandemic, and harsh environments. Considering the complexity and dynamics of construction environment, it is still challenging to develop fully automated robots. For a long time in the future, workers and robots w...

Though construction robots have drawn attention in research and practice for decades, human-robot collaboration (HRC) remains important to conduct complex construction tasks. Considering its complexity and uniqueness, it is still unclear how HRC process will impact construction productivity, which is difficult to handle with conventional methods su...

Though construction robots have drawn attention in research and practice for decades, human-robot collaboration (HRC) remains important to conduct complex construction tasks. Considering its complexity and uniqueness, it is still unclear how HRC process will impact construction productivity, which is difficult to handle with conventional methods su...

Construction robots have drawn attention in research and practice for decades. Considering most of the construction robots are not fully automated and humans are always involved in the construction process, how humans and robots collaborate has a great impact on the total productivity. Unlike collaboration systems between human-human, human-device...