Students
Happy Thanksgiving
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.
Research
GMU won the Defend the Republic Robotic Blimps Competition Again
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 Read more…
Events
Creative Convergence Workshop
Dr. Yao attended the Creative Convergence Workshop (https://lnkd.in/gh9dFpyA) hosted at Princeton University and presented our work on human and robot co-learning. It was such a pleasure and honor to join this workshop and celebrate Dr. Naomi Leonard’s 60th birthday with Read more…
Research
COCOA2023 Paper Acceptance
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…
Research
IROS2023 Conference Trip
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…
Uncategorized
ACC2024 and CCDC2024 Associate Editors
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.
Research
Scrimmage GMU VS Lehigh
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…
Students
End of Summer Outing Event
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…
Research
RAL paper Acceptance
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…
Research
IROS Paper Acceptance
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…