Our paper titled “From Dissensus to Consensus: Bias-Controlled Transition in Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics” by Rajul Kumar, and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the 10th IFAC Conference on Networked Systems (NecSys 2025). Dr. Yao will attend this conference in-person to present this work in Hong Kong.
Our paper entitled “Fuzzy and Neural Network Controllers for N-Trailers Wheeled Mobile Robots Avoiding Self-Collision and Actuator Saturation” by Pouya Kassaeiyan, Dr. Qi Wei, and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC2025). Dr. Yao will attend this conference in-person. See you in Denver, CO, Read more…
Our paper entitled “From instantaneous schedulability to worst case schedulability: a significant moment approach” by Dr. Ningshi Yao with our collaborator Dr. Fumin Zhang has been published in Cyber-Physical System journal. Check out the paper online.
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 “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…
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…