Dr. Yao has been invited to speak at Purdue University’s ICON (Institute for Control, Optimization, and Networks) Weekly Seminar on Sep 26. Title: Dynamics and Control of Lighter-Than-Air Autonomous Blimps: Design, Development, and DeploymentDate/Time: Friday, September 26, 2025 | 3:00–4:30 PM (ET)Location: MSEE 112, Purdue UniversityZoom Link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/95468302127
Dr. Ningshi Yao will be giving a seminar at the University of Notre Dame. Looking forward to sharing our work on contention resolving MPC and discussing its applications in cyber-physical-human systems, from networked control to human-robot collaboration. Title: Resolve Contentions Through Real-time Control and Scheduling Co-design for Cyber-Physical-Human Systems Date/Time: Read more…
Dr. Ningshi Yao has been awarded a prestigious $1.17 million R01 grant, from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), to lead a groundbreaking 4 year project. The award comes from the joint National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) “Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Read more…
Our paper entitled “Avoiding Chatters with Hesitation in Human-Robot Co-Learning” by Dr. Ningshi Yao with our collaborators Dr. Yingke Li, Dr. Carol Young, and Dr. Fumin Zhang has been accepted by Unmanned Systems journal.
Our paper titled “One Human and Multi-Robot Collaboration: Evaluating the Impact of Attention-Guided On-Screen Recommendations on Human Multitasking Efficiency, Cognitive Load, and Trust” by Rajul Kumar, Renke Wang, and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2025).
Our paper titled “Contention-Resolving Model Predictive Control for Coordinating Automated Vehicles at a Multi-lane Traffic Intersection” by Renke Wang, and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the 2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA).
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.