This book is intended to be used as a textbook in undergraduate civil engineering and construction courses to introduce cutting edge mechanical, electrical and computer science topics that are needed for civil and construction engineers to collaborate in inter-disciplinary automation projects.

Benny Raphael is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras, India.

1. Introduction to Automation 2. Hardware for automation 3. Software for automation 4. Application: Building Automation 5. Application: Construction Automation 6. Introduction to Machine Learning 7. Basic Mathematics for Machine Learning 8. Regression 9. Classification task 10. Inductive learning - decision trees and random forests 11. Unsupervised learning algorithms Epilogue