In this full-day Digital Futures workshop on Smart Construction, we discuss multi-robot planning and control algorithms, digital twins, and network infrastructures that are all essential components of tomorrow’s construction sites. The workshop consists of technical presentations and talks, panel discussions, and demonstrations and is related to Digital Futures project “Towards Safe Smart Construction: Algorithms, Digital Twins and Infrastructures“.
Date and Time: Tuesday 2 December 2025, 09:00-17:15
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
Questions? Contact Mani Hemanth Dhullipalla, manihd@kth.se
Agenda
09.00 – 09.30 | Welcome, Registration & Coffee
09.30 – 09.45 | Project overview
Dimos Dimarogonas, KTH
09.45 – 10.30 | Automation in construction: a general viewpoint
Fredrik Johansson, KTH and Ulf Håkansson, Skanska
10.30 – 11.15 | Digital Twin creation, maintenance and coupling
Zhihao Liu and Vincent Wang, KTH
11.15 – 12.00 | Networked Infrastructure Prediction and Optimization
James Gross, KTH
12.00 – 13.00 | LUNCH
13.00 – 13.45 | 5G/6G networks in construction: beyond connectivity services
Sara Sandberg, Ericsson
13.45 – 14.30 | Multi-Robot Task Planning and Control for smart construction
Mani Hemanth Dhullipalla and Victor Nan Fernandez-Ayala, KTH
14.30 – 15.30 | Lab tour & Coffee
15.30 – 16.15 | Integration and demonstration
Zhihao Liu & Victor Nan Fernandez-Ayala, KTH
16.15 – 17:15 | Panel discussion on next steps and closing
The conference is co-sponsored by Digital Futures
