Our paper entitled “See What a Strabismus Patient Sees Using Eye Robots” by Yidi Huang, Dr. Ningshi Yao, and our collaborator Dr. Qi Wei and Dr. Joseph L. Demer was accepted by the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023). Yidi will present this work in-person Read more…
The GMU BlimpSquad team took first place in the Defend the Republic competition, held in Eaglebank Arena, George Mason University, in April 2023. After an autonomous qualifying, we stood as the first team to achieve a full sequence of autonomous ball capturing and autonomous scoring without any human intervention, and Read more…
We are very excited to announce that we have received a grant from the Office of Naval Research for Distributed Intelligence with Lighter-Than-Air Vehicles. This 3-year project is a joint research with Dr. Daigo Shishika. The project aims to build robotic agents that can robustly operate in dynamic and contested Read more…
This senior design project aims to develop a robotic eye platform, which can effectively emulate what patients with eye disorders see, allowing doctors to see their point of view and giving them the necessary insight to more accurately diagnose and tailor treatments for patients. Thanks for your hard work and Read more…
Sunil Kumar Rajendran successfully defended his PhD and became the first student to earn a PhD degree from CIAO lab! During his PhD, Sunil published 2 journals, 5 conference papers (Sunil’s Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aKYLSvMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao), and 1 journal paper is currently under review. Thanks for your hard work and congratulations again! Read more…
Congratulation to undergraduate student Chase Joyner on finishing his summer research intern in CIAO lab! Chase was a freshman at Stanford and was working with Dr. Yao during summer 2022 on the light-than-air vehicle development. He implemented a distributed sensing and distributed actuation algorithm on a robotic blimp which enables Read more…
We are very excited to announce that our lab has received an NSF ECCS grant. This 3-year project will focus on developing novel and transformative approaches to co-design scheduling and control strategies for resource constrained cyber physical systems.
Our paper entitled “Observability Analysis and Reduced-Order Observer Design for a Super-Coiled Polymer-Driven Robotic Eye” by Sunil Kumar Rajendran, Dr. Ningshi Yao, and our collaborator Dr. Qi Wei and Dr. Feitian Zhang was accepted by the 61th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2022). Sunil Kumar Rajendran will present Read more…
Our PhD student Sunil Kumar Rajendran received the ECE “2022 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant” award. Congratulations!
Dr. Yao attended a networking and career discussion event organized by the Girls’ Leadership Committee (GLC) at McLean High School. As one of the panelist, Dr. Yao shared her experiences and insights of being a female engineer and professor for young women interested in STEM majors.