Automating on-site object inspection with a quadruped robot and BIM

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2026-01

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Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation
Department of Civil Engineering

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en

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26

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Automation in Construction, Volume 181

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Deploying robots into construction sites and built environments using Building Information Modeling (BIM) is difficult due to environmental changes and inconsistencies between BIM and real-world structures. To overcome these challenges, an integrated framework is proposed for automated inspection featuring adaptive BIM-driven navigation for a quadruped robot. The framework addresses challenges of localization, mapping, and navigation in challenging environments. By leveraging BIM for initialization and planning, it dynamically verifies BIM elements through sensor data, updating the map to distinguish between fixed structures, missing elements, and dynamic obstacles. This enables robust navigation despite environmental uncertainties. The capability supports automated tasks across the building lifecycle, demonstrated through object inspection using adaptive next-best-view (NBV) planning and vision–language model (VLM) analysis without task-specific training. Both simulated experiments and real-world validation confirm strong performance despite dynamic obstacles and BIM discrepancies. The approach enhances robotic adaptability in construction and facility management contexts while reducing manual inspection requirements.

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Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Adaptive navigation, Autonomous mobile robots, BIM, Construction progress monitoring, Next-best-view planning, Object inspection, Vision–language models

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10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106571

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Tuomisto, J, Zheng, Y, Chauhan, I, Seppänen, O & Pajarinen, J 2026, 'Automating on-site object inspection with a quadruped robot and BIM', Automation in Construction, vol. 181, 106571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106571

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