Kaya, Yusuf Furkan;
Orr, Lachlan;
Kocer, Basaran Bahadir;
Pawar, Vijay;
Stuart-Smith, Robert;
Kovač, Mirko;
(2025)
Aerial additive manufacturing: Toward on-site building construction with aerial robots.
Science Robotics
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(101)
, Article eado6251. 10.1126/scirobotics.ado6251.
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Abstract
Recent advancements in large-scale additive manufacturing have extended its application in the building industry, delivering notable gains in productivity, efficiency, environmental sustainability, and safety compared with traditional construction methods. Aerial additive manufacturing (aerial AM), which uses aerial robots for unbounded construction tasks, offers distinct advantages, such as scalability at height, enhanced access to remote or challenging locations, and rapid on-demand repair capabilities. Despite several small-scale demonstrations, deploying aerial robots in construction still presents critical challenges and unresolved scientific questions. This Review provides a comprehensive analysis of current aerial AM research, highlights key opportunities and challenges at large scales, and introduces an autonomy framework aimed at clarifying the overarching challenges inherent in the technology.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Aerial additive manufacturing: Toward on-site building construction with aerial robots |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1126/scirobotics.ado6251 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.ado6251 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10208790 |
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