Design, Construction and Planning
Construction Automation and Safety Research Group (CAS)
Led by Idris Jeelani · Construction Management
What we study
The CAS Lab studies construction safety and worker performance using visual data analytics and AI. They develop tools to improve hazard detection and safety training for construction workers.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Human participants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Health and safety implications of UAVs on construction job sites
Investigating how drones affect safety on construction sites.
AI-based tools to improve safety performance in construction
Building AI tools to enhance worker safety training and hazard detection.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Development and Evaluation of Television Media-Based Educational Game Framework for Materials Science and Engineering Education
2026 · IEEE Transactions on Education
Creates and tests a game-based learning tool for teaching materials science and engineering.
- Human–Robot Collaboration Levels in Construction with Mobile Ground Robots: Cognitive Workload, Safety Perception, and Attitudes
2026 · Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Studies how workers feel about collaborating with robots on construction sites and how it affects safety.
Show 3 more papersShow fewer
- Bidirectional multimodal worker-drone communication in a real-world construction environment
2026 · Automation in Construction
- VirtuAI-Safe: Personalized Situated Safety Learning through Integration of VR and LLMs
2026 · Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
Uses virtual reality and AI to teach construction workers how to stay safe in real work settings.
- Bidirectional Human–Drone Safety Communication in Construction
2025 · Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Develops a communication system to help drones and workers stay safe on construction sites.
Plain-language summaries are AI-written and reviewed by us; check the paper for details.
How to reach out
Idris Jeelani hasn't set up this page yet. You can also look them up in the UF directory (search “Idris Jeelani”).