Adaptive real-time tracking and simulation of heavy construction operations for look-ahead scheduling

Automation in Construction

Volumn 27, Issue , 2012, Pages 32-39

  Song, Lingguang ^a   Eldin, Neil N ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction operations; Look ahead scheduling; Real time; Simulation; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPABILITIES; AUTOMATIC MODELS; CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS; DURING CONSTRUCTION; HEAVY CONSTRUCTION; IN-FIELD; LOOK-AHEAD SCHEDULING; NEW PROJECTS; OFF-LINE SIMULATIONS; PROJECT ENVIRONMENT; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; REAL TIME TRACKING; REAL-TIME; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL;

AUTOMATION; CIVIL ENGINEERING; SURFACE DISCHARGES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84863701904     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. R.L. Peurifoy, C.J. Schexnayder, and A. Shapira Construction Planning and Equipment and Methods 7th ed. 2006 McGraw Hill New York
2. J. Hinze Construction Planning and Scheduling 2007 Prentice Hall New York
3. D.W. Halpin, and L.S. Riggs Planning and Analysis of Construction Operations 1992 John Wiley & Sons New York
4. S.M. AbouRizk Role of simulation in construction engineering and management Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 136 10 2010 1140 1153
5. J. Banks Handbook of Simulation 1998 John Wiley & Sons New York
6. W.J. Davis Online simulation: need and evolving research requirements J. Banks, Handbook of Simulation 1998 John Wiley & Sons New York 465 518
7. H.J. Yoon, and W. Shen Simulation-based real-time decision making for manufacturing automation systems: a review International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 8 2006 188 202
8. F. Darema Dynamic data driven applications systems: a new paradigm for application simulations and measurements Proceeding of International Conference on Computational Science, Krakow, Poland 2004
9. FIATECH Capital Project Technology Road Mapping Initiative 2011 FIATECH Austin, Texas
10. R. Navon, and Y. Shpatnitsky A model for automated monitoring of road construction Construction Management and Economics 23 9 2005 941 951
11. T.H. Chung, Y. Mohamed, and S.M. AbouRizk Bayesian updating application into simulation in the North Edmonton sanitary trunk tunnel project Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 132 8 2006 882 894
12. M. Lu, F. Dai, and W. Chen Real-time decision support for planning concrete plant operations enabled by integrating vehicle tracking technology, simulation, and optimization algorithm Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 34 2007 912 922
13. N. Ackroyd Earthworks scheduling and monitoring using GPS Proceeding of Trimble Users Conference, San Jose, California 1998 1 6
14. L. Song, and S.M. AbouRizk Virtual shop model for experimental planning of steel fabrication projects Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 20 5 2006 308 316
15. A.M. Law, and W.D. Kelton Simulation Modeling & Analysis 3rd ed. 2000 McGraw-Hill New York
16. S.M. AbouRizk, and A. Sawhney Subjective and interactive duration estimation Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 20 3 1993 457 470
17. R.J. Wales, and S.M. AbouRizk An integrated simulation model for construction Simulation Practice and Theory 3 1996 401 420
18. H. Zhang, C.M. Tam, and J.J. Shi Application of fuzzy logic to simulation for construction operations Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 17 1 2003 38 45
19. D.J. Wheeler, and D.S. Chambers Understanding Statistical Process Control 2nd ed. 2003 SPC Press Knoxville, TN
20. BestFit BestFit User Manual 2003 Palisade Corporation New York
21. J. Martinez Methodology for conducting discrete-event simulation studies in construction engineering and management Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 136 1 2010 3 16
22. HCSS The Dispatcher User Guide 2008 Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, Inc. Houston, Texas
23. Simio Simio User Help 2010 Simio LLC Sewickley, PA