A system for improving the safety and efficiency of construction equipment is the aim of a three-year, $650,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to a team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The project will initially focus on mobile cranes, which have recently been involved in numerous construction site accidents.
Work on the project, "Safe and Efficient Cyber-Physical Operation System for Construction Equipment," will begin Jan. 1, 2016.