This summer, Ciao lab hosted 3 high-school interns ASSIP and 2 high-school student volunteers. The students worked on robotic blimp development and human robot interaction experiment and completed the summer project sucessfully.
The goal for “Recent Advancement of IndoorLight-Than-Air Agents Workshop”, organized by Dr. Ningshi Yao, Dr. Fumin Zhang and Dr. Donald Sofge, is to disseminate the latest breakthroughs in Light-Than-Air (LTA) agents, i.e., robotic blimps, within the dynamic context of advanced intelligent mechatronics. This workshop is motivated by significant recent advances Read more…
Our paper entitled “Sequential Transfer Learning-Based Human Decision Making Model for Human-Robot Co-Learning and Insights from User Feedback Analysis” by Rajul Kumar, Vaidehi Som and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024). Dr. Yao will attend this Read more…
Our paper entitled “Optimal Real-Time Human Attention Allocation and Scheduling in a Multi-human and Multi-robot Collaborative System” by Renke Wang and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by The 8th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA2024).
Our newest blimp agent: the Sky-Gripper, crafted with precision by my ECE senior design team, participated in the “Defend the Republic” blimp competition. Inspired by the iconic “The Claw” in Toy Story, the Sky-Gripper is a colossal apparatus, stretching over 7 meters with its arms fully extended. Its design is Read more…
Our paper entitled “Robust Model Predictive Control for Networked Control Systems with Timing Perturbations” by Renke Wang and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by rhe 2024 American Control Conference (ACC2024). Dr. Yao will attend this conference in-person. Look forward to seeing you in Toronto, ON, Canada!
Our late breaking report entitled “Unveiling the Dynamics of Human Decision-Making: From Strategies to False Beliefs in Collaborative Human-Robot Co-Learning Tasks” by Rajul Kumar, Yidi Huang, and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2024). Dr. Yao will attend this Read more…
Ciao Lab faculty and PhD students went out for dinner last night to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanks for a fun and productive semester. And let’s keep creating and discovering more.
The GMU Blimp Square team, led by me and Dr. Daigo Shishika from the ME department, just won the Defend the Republic (DTR) robotic blimp competition hosted at Lehigh University from November 13-17, 2023. The competition featured eight universities: Lehigh University, George Mason University (GMU), University of Florida (UF), Baylor Read more…
Dr. Yao attended the Creative Convergence Workshop (https://lnkd.in/gh9dFpyA) hosted at Princeton University and presented our work on human and robot co-learning. It was such a pleasure and honor to join this workshop and celebrate Dr. Naomi Leonard’s 60th birthday with a group of fantastic scientists and researchers. Naomi is always Read more…