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 ## Acknowledgements
 This work is part of the research project “Internet of Construction” that is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany within the indirective on a joint funding initiative in the field of innovation for production, services and labor of tomorrow (funding number: 02P17D081) and supported by the project management agency “Projekttr¨ager Karlsruhe (PTKA)”. The authors are responsible for the content.
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+The code has been developed at [WZL of RWTH Aachen University](https://wzl.rwth-aachen.de)
 Main authors of the code: Sören Münker, Daniel Swoboda, Karim El Zaatari, Nehel Malhotra, Lucas Manasses Pinheiro de Souza.