2025
06/2025: Journal paper “BIM-Driven Unmanned Ground Vehicle Swarm System for Geometric and Visual Data Collection” was published in Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.
05/2025: Jula Marzouk and Abdullah Malik joined CROSS Lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
05/2025: PhD student Zhaofeng presented a poster and a paper “MVCTrack: Boosting 3D Point Cloud Tracking via Multimodal-Guided Virtual Cues” at ICRA 2025.
05/2025: Conference papers “Construction Robot Skill Learning for Fragile Object Installation with Low-Effort Demonstration and Sample-Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Models” and “Exploiting Physics and Data for Skill Acquisition from Virtual Reality-based Demonstrations for Construction Tasks” were published at ICRA 2025 Construction Robotics Workshop.
05/2025: Journal paper “Industrial Robotics and the Future of Work” was published in American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
03/2025: Kadin Sales and Logan Norton-Lapsley joined CROSS Lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
03/2025: Dr. Liang is guest editing “Special Collection on Foundational and Applied Robotics in the Built Environment” in ASCE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering.
02/2025: Dr. Liang is co-organizing “4th Workshop on Future of Construction: Safe, Reliable, and Precise Robots in Construction Environments” at ICRA 2025.
02/2025: Cheng-Yun Tsai joined CROSS Lab as a Visiting MS student. Welcome!
2024
12/2024: Journal paper “Construction Robotics and Automation [TC Spot Light]” was published in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine.
12/2024: Dr. Liang’s research was featured in SBU News.
11/2024: Dr. Liang is guest editing “Advancing Automation in Design and Construction: Practices and Research” in Frontiers in Built Environment.
08/2024: Zhaofeng Hu and Annelise Campo joined CROSS Lab as Ph.D. students. Welcome!
08/2024: Dr. Liang delivered a seminar, “Collaborative Robots for Construction Safety,” at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Robotics Interest Forum Seminar.
06/2024: Dr. Liang delivered a keynote speech at ISARC 2024.
06/2024: Conference paper “Safe Operations of Construction Robots on Human-Robot Collaborative Construction Sites” was published at ISARC 2024.
06/2024: Conference paper “Development of an Educational Package for a Construction Robots Simulator” was published at ISARC 2024.
05/2024: Conference workshop paper “Design and Prototype of a Multi-Functional Robotic Cell for the Fabrication of Exterior Retrofit Panels” was published at ICRA 2024 Construction Robotics Workshop.
03/2024: Journal paper “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industry” was published in Automation in Construction.
03/2024: Dr. Liang received the ASCE John O. Bickel Award during the Construction Research Congress. Congratulations to Dr. Liang!
01/2024: Journal paper “A Literature Review on Safety Perception and Trust during Human-Robot Interaction with Autonomous Mobile Robots That Apply to Industrial Environments” was published in IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors.
2023
12/2023: Conference paper “Identification of Contact Avoidance Zones of Robotic Devices in Human-robot Collaborative Workspaces” was published at MECC 2023.
10/2023: The CROSS Lab website launched!