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March 2026: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation with Uncertainty Alignment for Robotic Scene Understanding of Indoor Building Spaces." has been accepted for publication in Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. ASCE.
February 2026: Prof. Menassa receives the Construction Management Award from ASCE. More information about the award can be found here.
Janaury 2026: SICIS and LIVE have received funding from University of Michgan to work with colleagues from across campus on "Institute for Advanced Construction Futures". Learn more here.
September 2025: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Generalizable Skill Learning for Construction Robots with Crowdsourced Natural Language Instructions, Composable Skills Standardization, and Large Language Model." has been accepted for publication in ASCE Open: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering. ASCE.
June 2025: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Siamese Network with Dual Attention for EEG-Driven Social Learning: Bridging the Human-Robot Gap in Long-Tail Autonomous Driving.” has been accepted for publication in Expert Systems with Applications. Elsevier.
May 2025: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Seeing with Partial Certainty: Conformal Prediction for Robotic Scene Recognition in Built Environments." was selected to receive the Best Paper Award at the 2025 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE).
April 2025: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Socially-Aware Shared Control Navigation for Assistive Mobile Robots in the Built Environment.” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering . ASCE.
April 2025: SICIS and LIVE research on shared control in powered wheelchairs was featured in Michigan Engineering. The article can be downloaded here. Accompanying video can be watched here.
April 2025: SICIS and LIVE participate in Q&A about Construction Automation.. The article can be downloaded here.
February 2025: SICIS and LIVE research on shared control in powered wheelchairs was featured in Tech Xplore. The article can be downloaded here.
January 2025: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Hands-free Crowdsensing of Accessibility Barriers in Sidewalk Infrastructure: A Brain-Computer Interface Approach.” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Infrastructure Systems . ASCE.
