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 Read more…
Dr. Yao will be a new member of the Conference Editorial Board (CEB) of the IEEE Control Systems Society. She will serve as Associate Editors for IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2025) and American Control Conference (ACC2026).
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 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 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 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 Read more…
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 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.