Our paper entitled “Two Exact Algorithms for the Packet Scheduling Problem” by Dr. Fei Li and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the 16th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA’23). Dr. Yao will attend this conference Read more…
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 Read more…
Dr. Yao will serve as Associate Editors for American Control Conference and the 36th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), which will be held in 2024.
The GMU blimp squad team went to Lehigh university on August 16 and 17 for a scrimmage game with Lehigh Blimps team. Both teams have tested their most recent developments and had a successful game. Please check out the highlights Read more…
It has been a productive and fruitful summer. The “Dragon” team of Defend The Republic project has implemented the first version of Braitenberg Blimps. Check out our video from our youtube channel. Thank you all for the hard work. Let’s Read more…
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 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 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 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 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 Read more…