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Vineet R. Kamat

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John L. Tishman Family Professor of Construction Management and Sustainability

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vkamat@umich.edu(734) 764-4325

Location

2008 GG Brown

2350 Hayward, 2008 GG Brown Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125

Related Links

Group page at CEM

Primary Website

Laboratory for Interactive Visualization in Engineering (LIVE)

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Education

  • Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2003
  • M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2000
  • B.E., Goa University, Goa, India, 1998

Research Interests

My current research interests are in automation and robotics, and their applications in the construction, operation and maintenance of civil infrastructure and the built environment. For more information, please visit: http://live.engin.umich.edu

Videos

Watch a video of me discussing current developments and future outlook in autonomous robot construction.

Watch a video of me discussing how to prevent construction accidents using georeferenced augmented reality.

Professional Service

  • Member of the Board of Directors, International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC), 2014-present
  • Chair of the Awards Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers Construction Institute (ASCE-CI), 2013-present
  • Member of the Board of Governors, American Society of Civil Engineers Construction Institute (ASCE-CI), 2011-2012
  • Chair of the Executive Committee, Construction Research Council (CRC), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2011-2012
  • Associate Editor, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2005-present

Awards

  • Construction Management Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCS), 2022
  • Rackham Master’s Mentoring Award, 2022
  • Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2022
  • Peurifoy Construction Research Award, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2020
  • Collingwood Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2018
  • Distinguished Professor Award, Construction Industry Institute (CII), 2017
  • Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining (ISARC), 2016
  • Outstanding Researcher Award, FIATECH Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation (CETI), 2016
  • Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2015
  • Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining (ISARC), 2014
  • Best Paper Award, ASCE Construction Research Congress, 2014
  • Daniel W. Halpin Award for Scholarship in Construction, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2012

Publications

  • Lundeen, K.M., Kamat, V.R., Menassa, C.C., McGee, W. (2017). “Scene Understanding for Adaptive Manipulation in Robotized Construction Work,” Automation in Construction, 82 (2017), Elsevier Science, New York, NY, 16-30.
  • Mantha, B. R. K., Menassa, C., and Kamat, V. R. (2016) “Ambient Data Collection in Indoor Building Environments Using Mobile Robots,” International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC) 2016, Auburn, AL, 1-8. (Best Paper Award)
  • Feng, C., Xiao, Y., Willette, A., McGee, W., and Kamat, V.R. (2015). “Vision Guided Autonomous Robotic Assembly and As-Built Scanning on Unstructured Construction Sites,” Automation in Construction, 59 (2015), Elsevier Science, New York, NY, 128-138.
  • Kim, J., You, S., Lee, S., Kamat, V. R., and Robert, L. P. (2015). “Evaluation of Human Robot Collaboration in Masonry Work Using Immersive Virtual Environments,” Construction Application of Virtual Reality (CONVR 2015), Banff, Canada, 132-141.
  • Feng, C., Yong, X., Willette, A., McGee, W., and Kamat, V.R. (2014). “Autonomous Robotic In-Situ Assembly on Unstructured Construction Sites,” Proceedings of the 31th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction, Sydney, Australia, 163-170. (Best Paper Award)


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