Raghavan Kunigahalli

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Raghavan Kunigahalli is a pioneering figure in construction robotics, whose work in the early 1990s laid foundational groundwork for automating building processes. His primary research areas include motion planning for construction robots, multi-robot coordination, and quantitative evaluation frameworks for construction automation. Kunigahalli’s most cited work, “Motion planning for automated construction” (1994, 10 citations), addresses the critical challenge of navigating robots within dynamic, unstructured construction environments. He further advanced the field by exploring how to manage multiple construction robots through computer control (1993, 4 citations). Perhaps his most notable contribution is the development of a generic framework for evaluating multiple construction robots (1991, 2 citations), which uniquely links high-level business goals with robot implementation considerations using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. This framework provided a structured, quantitative method for construction managers to assess robotics investments. Though his citation counts are modest by today’s standards, Kunigahalli’s work was prescient, establishing early principles for robot integration in construction—a field that has since grown into a major area of research and industry practice.