Forschungsbericht 2025

Digitales und autonomes Bauen B-1

Leitung: Smarsly, Kay

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The Institute of Digital and Autonomous Construction (IDAC) conducts interdisciplinary research in all areas of digitalization in civil engineering and is engaged in the exploration of fundamental informational methods for modern civil and environmental engineering. Application areas include cyber-physical systems, smart sensors/actuators, construction robotics, cognitive building, additive manufacturing, and AI-based Industry 4.0 technologies.

Publikationen

• Damage detection in lightweight bridges with traveling masses using machine learning - Journal Article
  Dadoulis, Georgios; Manolis, George; Katakalos, Konstantinos; Dragos, Kosmas; Smarsly, Kay
  Engineering Structures 322: 119216 (2025)
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• Quantum and quantum-inspired computing in civil engineering - Journal Article
  Ploennigs, Joern; Smarsly, Kay; Berger, Markus; Dragos, Kosmas; Kliesch, Martin
  Advanced Engineering Informatics 69 (Part B): 103960 (2026)
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• Workshop smartGeotech Künstliche Intelligenz, Automatisierung, Robotik - Conference Proceedings
  Grabe, Jürgen; Schneider-muntau Barbara; Bürkner, Göta; Abdennadher, Mohamed Ali; Pucker, Tim; Chmelnizkij, Alexander; Smarsly, Kay; Somasundaram, Rahul; Williams Riquer, Francisco; Fuentes, Raul; Abdulsalam, Abdulrahman; Perau, Eugen; Marzouk, Islam; Felic, Haris; Tschuchnigg, Franz; Brinkgreve, Ronald; Daubner, Marcus; Seng, Frederic; Klein, Lasse; Henke, Sascha; Beck, Johannes; Cerek, Kacper; Ivanova, Marina; Schreiber, Jörg; Backhaus, Jan Onne; Thienert, Christian; Gutberlet, Lara; Klaproth, Christoph; Otterbein, Reiner; Ludwig, Frank; Könemann, Frank; Heim, André; Budach, Christoph
  Technische Universität Hamburg (2025)
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• Decentralized sensor fault diagnosis for wireless structural health monitoring systems using Artificial Intelligence of Things - Conference Paper
  Al-Zuriqat, Thamer; Chillón Geck, Carlos; Dragos, Kosmas; Manolis, George; Smarsly, Kay
  15th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, IWSHM 2025
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• Portable gait-asymmetry detection using lowcost hardware and machine learning - Journal Article
  Lange Machado Carneiro, Victor; Chillón Geck, Carlos; Kern, Thorsten A.
  Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering 11 (1): 540-543 (2025)
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• Decision making in structural health monitoring using large language models - Conference Paper
  Smarsly, Kay; Chmelnizkij, Alexander; Dragos, Kosmas; Peralta Abadia, Jose; Al-Zuriqat, Thamer; Ahmad, Muhammad; Chillón Geck, Carlos; Peralta Abadia, Patricia; Seitz, Lucia
  15th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, IWSHM 2025
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• TUHH-Twin – Ein digitaler Zwilling für einen nachhaltigen Smart Campus - Book Part
  Chillón Geck, Carlos
  Springer 978-3-658-47573-4: 155–173 (2025)
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• Digital-twin-based structural health monitoring of dikes - Journal Article
  Bornholdt, Marike; Herbrand, Martin; Smarsly, Kay; Zehetmaier, Gerhard
  CivilEng 6 (3): 39 (2025)
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• An embedded computing approach for vibration-based system identification using reduced-order finite elements - Conference Paper
  Dragos, Kosmas; Magalhães, Filipe; Smarsly, Kay
  11th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, EVACES 2025
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• BIM-based human-robot collaboration for building inspections using mixed reality - Conference Paper
  Tandon, Aditya; Stührenberg, Jan; Dragos, Kosmas; Mohite, Ishan; Smarsly, Kay
  European Conference on Computing in Construction & CIB W78 Conference on IT in Construction 2025
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• Automated defect detection in clay printing - Conference Paper
  Peralta Abadia, Patricia; Al-Zuriqat, Thamer; Noufal, Mahmoud; Smarsly, Kay
  42nd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC 2025
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• A decentralized digital twinning approach for wireless structural health monitoring systems - Conference Paper
  Dragos, Kosmas; Smarsly, Kay
  11th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, EVACES 2025
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• Modeling and predicting soil vibrations during vibrodriving installation using noisy data and dynamic mode decomposition - Conference Paper
  Williams Riquer, Francisco; Abdennadher, Mohamed Ali; Chmelnizkij, Alexander; Grabe, Jürgen; Smarsly, Kay
  11th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, EVACES 2025
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• Physics-based wireless structural health monitoring and control using temporal finite elements - Conference Paper
  Dragos, Kosmas; Martínez, Clara V.; Manolis, George; Smarsly, Kay
  10th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, COMPDYN 2025
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• Offline map updating and validation for autonomous driving using crowdsourced data - Conference Paper
  Moawad, Mark; Stührenberg, Jan; Tandon, Aditya; Abdulaaty, Omar; Mendoza, Ricardo Carillo; Hussein, Ahmed; Smarsly, Kay
  36th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IV 2025
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• LIO-BIM – Coupling lidar inertial odometry with building information modeling for robot localization and mapping - Journal Article
  Stührenberg, Jan; Smarsly, Kay
  Advanced Engineering Informatics 66: 103477 (2025)
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• Digital-twin-based management of sewer systems: research strategy for the KaSyTwin project - Journal Article
  Hartmann, Sabine; Valles, Raquel; Schmitt, Annette; Al-Zuriqat, Thamer; Dragos, Kosmas; Gölzhäuser, Peter; Jung, Jan Thomas; Villinger, Georg; Varela Rojas, Diana; Bergmann, Matthias; Pullmann, Torben; Heimer, Dirk; Stahl, Christoph; Stollewerk, Axel; Hilgers, Michael; Jansen, Eva; Schoenebeck, Brigitte; Buchholz, Oliver; Papadakis, Ioannis; Merkle, Dominik; Jäkel Jan-Iwo; Mackenbach, Sven; Klemt-Albert, Katharina; Reiterer, Alexander; Smarsly, Kay
  Water 17 (3): 299 (2025)
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• Advancing digital transformation in material science: the role of workflows within the MaterialDigital initiative - Journal Article
  Bekemeier, Simon; Caldeira Rêgo Celso Ricardo; Mai, Han Lin; Saikia, Ujjal; Waseda, Osamu; Apel, Markus; Arendt, Felix; Aschemann, Alexander; Bayerlein, Bernd; Courant, Robert; Dziwis, Gordian; Fuchs, Florian; Giese, Ulrich; Luger, Marc; Junghanns, Kurt; Kamal, Mohamed; Koschmieder, Lukas; Leineweber, Sebastian; Lukas, Marco; Maas, Jürgen; Mertens, Jana; Mieller, Bjoern; Overmeyer, Ludger; Pirch, Norbert; Reimann, Jan; Schröck, Sebastian; Schulze, Philipp; Schuster, Jörg; Seidel, Alexander; Shchyglo, Oleg; Sierka, Marek; Silze, Frank; Stier, Simon P.; Tegeler, Marvin; Unger, Jörg F.; Weber, Matthias; Hickel, Tilmann
  Advanced Engineering Materials 27 (8): 2402149 (2025)
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• Blockchain-based secure archiving of sensor malfunctions in structural health monitoring systems - Conference Paper
  Peralta Abadia, Patricia; Al-Zuriqat, Thamer; Burse, Benjamin; Söbke, Heinrich; Smarsly, Kay
  European Conference on Computing in Construction & CIB W78 Conference on IT in Construction 2025
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• Digital twins for sewer systems maintenance: a systematic literature review - Conference Paper
  Hartmann, Sabine; Gomez, Raquel Valles; Gölzhäuser, Peter; Mackenbach, Sven; Klemt-Albert, Katharina; Al-Zuriqat, Thamer; Peralta Abadia, Patricia; Al-Hakim, Yousuf; Smarsly, Kay
  24th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality, CONVR 2024
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• Concepts for a Semantically Accessible Materials Data Space: Overview over Specific Implementations in Materials Science - Journal Article
  Bayerlein, Bernd; Waitelonis, Jörg; Birkholz, Henk; Jung, Matthias; Schilling, Markus; v. Hartrott, Philipp; Bruns, Marian; Schaarschmidt, Jörg; Beilke, Kristian; Mutz, Marcel; Nebel, Vincent; Königer, Veit; Beran, Lisa; Kraus, Tobias; Vyas, Akhilesh; Vogt, Lars; Blum, Moritz; Ell, Basil; Chen, Ya Fan; Waurischk, Tina; Thomas, Akhil; Durmaz, Ali Riza; Ben Hassine, Sahar; Fresemann, Carina; Dziwis, Gordian; Beygi Nasrabadi, Hossein; Hanke, Thomas; Telong, Melissa; Pirskawetz, Stephan; Kamal, Mohamed; Bjarsch, Thomas; Pähler, Ursula; Hofmann, Peter; Leemhuis, Mena; Özçep, Özgür L.; Meyer, Lars Peter; Skrotzki, Birgit; Neugebauer, Jörg; Wenzel, Wolfgang; Sack, Harald; Eberle, Christopher; Portella, Pedro Dolabella; Hickel, Tilmann; Mädler, Lutz; Gumbsch, Peter
  Advanced Engineering Materials 27 (8): 2401092 (2025)
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• Intelligente digitale Methoden zur Verlängerung der Nutzungsdauer der Nibelungenbrücke - Journal Article
  Kang, Chongjie; Andrés Arcones, Daniel; Becks, Henrik; Beetz, Jakob; Blankenbach, Jörg; Classen, Martin; Degener, Sebastian; Eisermann, Cedric; Göbels, Anne; Hegger, Josef; Hermann, Ralf; Kähler, Philipp; Peralta Abadia, Patricia; Petryna, Yuri; Schnellenbach-Held, Martina; Schulz, Oliver; Smarsly, Kay; Fatih Sönmez, Mehmet; Sprenger, Bjarne; Unger, Jörg F.; Vassilev, Hristo; Weiser, Martin; Marx, Steffen
  Beton Und Stahlbetonbau: 1-18 (2025)
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• Kopplung von Building Information Modeling mit Behavior Trees als Grundlage für automatisierte Bauwerksinspektionen - Conference Paper
  Tandon, Aditya; Stührenberg, Jan; Sawant, Saurabh
  36. Forum Bauinformatik, fbi 2025
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• Automated building inspections coupling building information modeling and behavior trees - Conference Paper
  Tandon, Aditya; Stührenberg, Jan; Smarsly, Kay
  European Conference on Computing in Construction & CIB W78 Conference on IT in Construction 2025
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• Automated defect detection in fused filament fabrication coupling deep learning and computer vision - Conference Paper
  Al-Zuriqat, Thamer; Noufal, Mahmoud; Peralta Abadia, Patricia; Dragos, Kosmas; Smarsly, Kay
  European Conference on Computing in Construction & CIB W78 Conference on IT in Construction 2025
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• Ontology-based knowledge representation for wire arc additive manufacturing and composite extrusion modeling - Conference Paper
  Ahmad, Muhammad; Peralta Abadia, Jose; Chmelnizkij, Alexander; Reimann, Jan; Hildebrand, Jörg; Bergmann, Jean Pierre; Smarsly, Kay
  32nd International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, EG-ICE 2025
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• Automated construction progress monitoring coupling lidar inertial odometry and building information modeling - Conference Paper
  Stührenberg, Jan; Tandon, Aditya; Smarsly, Kay
  32nd International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, EG-ICE 2025
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• Construction site AI: Opportunities and limits of artificial intelligence in civil engineering - Conference Paper
  Al-Nasser, Heba; Dragos, Kosmas; Smarsly, Kay
  smartGeotech 2025
  
  
• Improved neighbor search algorithm for efficiently locating material points in numerical simulations using the material point method (MPM) - Conference Paper
  Chmelnizkij, Alexander; Smarsly, Kay
  Anura3D MPM Workshop 2025
  
  
• Explainable sensor fault diagnosis for structural health monitoring - Conference Paper
  Al-Nasser, Heba; Dragos, Kosmas; Smarsly, Kay
  SMART 2025
  
  
• Von Materialtests zum automatisierten Monitoring von 3D-gedruckten Lehmbauwerken - Conference Paper
  Vollmert, Jasper Antonius; Peralta Abadia, Jose; Alatassi, Mohammed
  36. Forum Bauinformatik, fbi 2025
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Projekte

• Graduiertenkolleg 3068 - Climate-informed Engineering
  Laufzeit 2025-2030
  Projektleitung: Rutner, Marcus; Smirnova, Irina; Liese, Andreas; Heinrich, Stefan; Huber, Patrick; Shokri, Nima; Fröhle, Peter; Schlüter, Michael; Rung, Thomas; Smarsly, Kay; Hohenegger, Cathy; Stevens, Bjorn
  
  
• Explainable artificial intelligence for fault diagnosis in structural health monitoring
  Technische Universität Hamburg; Laufzeit 2025-2026
  Projektleitung: Al-Nasser, Heba
  
  
• Dezentrale digitale Zwillinge für das Bauwerksmonitoring
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Laufzeit 2024-2027
  Projektleitung: Smarsly, Kay
  
  
• Roboterbasierte Bauwerkserfassung basierend auf Framesemantik und linguistischen Metamodellen
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Laufzeit 2024-2027
  Projektleitung: Smarsly, Kay
  
  
• FOR 5672: Multi-Roboter-Kollaboration für Monitoring und Inspektionen von Ingenieurbauwerken
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Laufzeit 2024-2028
  Projektleitung: Smarsly, Kay
  
  
• I³-Junior-Project – Digitalization of earth printing to advance climate-informed engineering
  Technische Universität Hamburg; Laufzeit 2024-2025
  Projektleitung: Tandon, Aditya
  
  
• TUHH-Twin - I³-Junior-Project – TUHH-Twin: Smart campus monitoring using digital twins
  Technische Universität Hamburg; Laufzeit 2024-2025
  Projektleitung: Chillón Geck, Carlos
  
  
• Digitalisierung von Lehmbauverfahren
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Laufzeit 2024-2027
  Projektleitung: Smarsly, Kay
  
  
• KaSyTwin - Generierung und Nutzung von digitalen Zwillingen bestehender Kanalinfrastruktur zur Steigerung der Verfügbarkeit und Resilienz im Betrieb
  Bundesministerium für Verkehr (BMV); Laufzeit 2023-2026
  Projektleitung: Smarsly, Kay
  Externe beteiligte Einrichtungen: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; albert.ing GmbH; Galilei-IP Ingenieure GmbH; KempenKrause Ingenieure GmbH; Hydrotec Ingenieurgesellschaft für Wasser und Umwelt mbH
  
  
• Modellierungs- und Bemessungskonzepte für die digitale Straße
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Laufzeit 2023-2026
  Projektleitung: Smarsly, Kay
  Externe beteiligte Einrichtungen: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
  
  
• SPP 2388: Qualitätsbewertung digitaler Zwillinge auf der Basis mathematischer Abstraktion und Tangle-basierten Blockchain-Architekturen
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Laufzeit 2022-2026
  Projektleitung: Smarsly, Kay
  
  
• IDA-KI - Verbundprojekt: Automatische Bewertung von Monitoringdaten von Infrastrukturbauwerken mithilfe von KI und IoT - IDA-KI -, Teilvorhaben: Technische Universität Hamburg
  Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr; Laufzeit 2022-2025
  Projektleitung: Smarsly, Kay
  Externe beteiligte Einrichtungen: Technische Universität Dresden; Hentschke Bau GmbH; MKP GmbH
  
  
• Resiliente Infrastruktur basierend auf kognitiven Bauwerken
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Laufzeit 2021-2025
  Projektleitung: Smarsly, Kay
  
  
• Explainable fault diagnosis for smart cities
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Laufzeit 2021-2025
  Projektleitung: Smarsly, Kay
  Externe beteiligte Einrichtungen: Universität Erfurt