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…
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 “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 “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).
Ciao Lab had a great IROS2023 journey! Our PhD student Yidi Huang presented our novel work on visualizing what patients with eye motion disorders can see, using eye robots! And Rajul Kumar received the IDEA travel award from WIE. Cheers for the nice work of our students and Mason Robotics.
Our paper entitled “Design, Implementation, and Observer-based Output Control of a Super-coiled Polymer-Driven Two Degree-of-Freedom Robotic Eye” by Sunil Kumar Rajendran, Dr. Ningshi Yao, and our collaborator Dr. Qi Wei and Dr. Feitian Zhang has been accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. To view the article, please visit here. Read more…
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…
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…