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Recent
One paper published in Automation in Construction.
We use virtual demonstrations of experts to speed up the training process for construction robots.
One paper accepted at BuildSys 2022.
Congrats Weijia, Royce, and Lei! We designed and built a miniaturized robot to conduct HVAC system inspections.
Lei, Weijia, Rui, and Harry receive fellowship as the second cohort of CITech sponsored by MMRI
The team will conduct research in civil with the assistance of VR/AR.
Welcome our newest ICONs
We welcome Kangkang Duan, Christine Suen, Harry Zhang, and Rui Li as the newest ICON members.
Kangkang receives CIV-Ex and CSC scholarship to pursue his Ph.D. at ICON
Congrats to Kangkang Duan on receiving CIV-Ex and CSC support towards his Ph.D.
ICON hosts undergraduate students for research
We welcome Zihan Zhu, Rosaline Baek, and Royce Zhang as work learn international undergrads to ICON.
ICON receives UBC Collaborative Research Mobility Award
with Dr. Qian Chen at UBC-Okanagan
The grant aims to strengthen the collaboration between ICon lab and the Construction Integration and Digitalization lab (led by Dr. Chen at UBC-O).
Lei and Weijia win Best Student Paper of the General Conference at CSCE 2022
The two won best student paper at the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE) annual conference held in Whitsler, BC in May, 2022. Their paper is titled “Virtual Reality-Based Expert Demonstrations for Training Construction Robots via Imitation Learning”.
Lei receives the J.K. Zee Memorial Fellowship for 2022
The award is offered to one graduate student in Computer Engineering or Civil Engineering (Construction Management) every year.
ICON receives NSERC Alliance Mission Grant to build tall timber modular buildings
ICON collaborates with Dr. Tony Yang (UBC Civil) and Dr. Cristiano Loss (UBC Forestry) to design and build tall timber buildings using robots.
ICON receives NSERC Discovery Grant to optimize indoor environments for building occupants
ICON works on quantifying the impact of indoor environment quality factors on human experience indoors.
Weijia receives UBC CIV-Ex award
Weijia is selected as one of the eight award recipient.
