- 09/27/2026Paper on AC-DC: Adaptive Communication for Scalable Dynamic Average Consensus in Multi-Robot Ergodic Search. With Robin Inho Kee and Dr. Begum Cannataro.
- 09/27/2026Paper on MorphQuad: Morphable Quadrotor for Superhuman Maneuverability, Manipulation, and Resiliency.
- 09/25/2026Associate Editor for the 2027 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
- 08/11/2026Patent granted.
- 08/11/2026NSF FRR-NIFA award, in collaboration with the outstanding Profs. Zhaojian Li and Minghui Zheng. Thank you to the reviewers and program for their support.
- 04/01/2026Paper on Self-configurable mesh-networks for scalable distributed submodular bandit optimization, introducing the metric Value of Collaboration to enable the agents in a multi-agent network to decide with whom other agents to coordinate to optimize decision time and optimality.
- 04/01/2026Paper on Distributed Equilibrium-Seeking in Target Coverage Games via Self-Configurable Networks under Limited Communication.
- 04/01/2026Paper on Distributed Online Submodular Maximization under Communication Delays: A Simultaneous Decision-Making Approach. Accepted to ACC.
- 01/16/2026Invited seminar at the 12th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory, April 25-26. Thank you for the kind invitation!
- 01/10/2026Associate editor for IROS 2026.
- 12/01/2025Paper Adaptive Legged Locomotion via Online Learning for Model Predictive Control accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL).
- 10/15/2025Associate editor for L4DC 2026.
- 09/30/2025Excited to give seminars next semester at Lehigh U, UCSD, UW, and IMSI workshop on New Directions in Reinforcement Learning and Control at U Chicago. Thank you for the kind invitations!
- 09/30/2025Invited talk at the 2025 IROS Workshop on Data-Enabled Learning and Control for Robotics. Thank you for the kind invitation.
- 09/04/2025Jiawei Xu (Ph.D. @ Lehigh with David Saldaña) will be joining the group as a post-doc to work on our morphable quadrotor, investigating self-adaptive online learning for proprioception, predictive control, and aerial manipulation.
- 09/03/2025Lecture 1’s slides from my new course on Online learning for control of single- and multi-robot systems.
- 08/21/2025Received an Army Early Career (ECP) award. Indebted for the honor and the generous support. Proud of my students. Special thanks to my first three Ph.D. students, Zirui Xu, Hongyu Zhou, and Atharva Navsalkar, for their vision and hard work on resource-aware and self-adaptive decentralized learning and control. Cool papers to appear soon.
- 06/01/2025Awarded grant from the Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization (MTRAC) program to continue our work on our morphable quadrotor. This award is a continuation of an MTRAC Kickstarter award. Thank you for the generous support.
- 05/07/2025Paper MorphEUS: Morphable Omnidirectional Unmanned System accepted at the Workshop on Open Challenges in Robotics for Asset Inspection and Management, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). With Ivan Bao, Jose C. D. P. G. Pacheco, Atharva Navsalkar, Andrew Scheffer, Sashreek Shankar, Andrew Zhao, and Hongyu Zhou.
- 05/01/2025Paper on End-to-End Learning Framework for Solving Non-Markovian Optimal Control accepted at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). With Xiaole Zhang, Peiyu Zhang, Xiongye Xiao, Shixuan Li, Vijay Gupta, and Paul Bogdan.
- 04/29/2025 Course announcement for Fall 2025: Online Learning for Single- and Multi-Agent Control.
- 04/22/2025Paper on Simultaneous System Identification and Model Predictive Control with No Dynamic Regret accepted at IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With Hongyu Zhou.
- 04/22/2025Paper on No-Regret Model Predictive Control with Online Learning of Koopman Operators accepted at American Control Conference. With Hongyu Zhou.
- 04/14/2025Paper on Communication- and Computation-Efficient Distributed Submodular Optimization in Robot Mesh Networks accepted at IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With Sandilya Sai Garimella (now at GaTech) and Zirui Xu.
- 03/27/2025Awarded a new grant from the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to support our work on decentralized multi-agent control for situational awareness. Many thanks to Draper and my Draper collaborator Dr. Begum Cannataro.
- 03/10/2025Hongyu Zhou and Zirui Xu receive the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. Congrats!
- 01/31/2025Elevated to IEEE Senior Member. Thank you to my letter writers.
- 01/28/2025I will be giving several talks this year, including at MSU (Robotics seminar series), Univ Lisboa (Institute for Systems and Robotics), UC Berkeley (Semiautonomous seminar series), Toyota RI, and an Autonomy Talk. Looking forward to seeing you all!
- 01/20/2025Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2025.
- 08/21/2024Received an NSF CAREER award. Proud of my students. Especially thanks to my first two Ph.D. students, Zirui Xu and Hongyu Zhou, and to Sandilya Garimella (now Ph.D. student at GaTech), Xiaofeng Lin and Yichen Song (now both Ph.D. students at BU).
- 07/24/2024Invited session at CDC 2024 on Submodularity in Control, Robotics, and Machine Learning: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities. Co-organized with Prof. Solmaz S. Kia of UCI and Prof. Linda Bushnell of UW. Exciting line of speakers! See you there.
- 07/24/2024Paper on Performance-Aware Self-Configurable Multi-Agent Networks: A Distributed Submodular Approach for Simultaneous Coordination and Network Design accepted at CDC 2024. With Zirui Xu.
- 07/16/2024Paper on Communication- and Computation-Efficient Distributed Decision-Making in Multi-Robot Networks. With Zirui Xu and Sandilya Garimella.
- 07/07/2024Paper on Simultaneous System Identification and Model Predictive Control with No Dynamic Regret. With Hongyu Zhou.
- 01/20/2024Paper on Leveraging Untrustworthy Commands for Multi-Robot Coordination in Unpredictable Environments: A Bandit Submodular Maximization Approach has been accepted to ACC 2024. With Zirui Xu and Xiafeng Lin.
- 01/20/2024Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2024 (this is the 4th year, wow; a pleasure to serve such a vibrant robotics venue).
- 01/20/2024Upcoming invited seminars at UCSB, UBC, and USC during this March. Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues.
- 10/01/2023Associate Editor for IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), starting Jan 2024.
- 09/20/2023Paper on Leveraging Untrustworthy Commands for Multi-Robot Coordination in Unpredictable Environments: A Bandit Submodular Maximization Approach. With Zirui Xu and Xiafeng Lin.
- 09/20/2023Paper on Safe Non-Stochastic Control of Control-Affine Systems has been accepted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). With Hongyu Zhou and Yichen Song.
- 08/31/2023Workshop paper Resource-Aware Simulator for Decentralized Active Perception with Multiple Robots accepted to IEEE/RSJ IROS 2023. With Sandilya Sai Garimella and Zirui Xu.
- 07/13/20233 papers were accepted to IEEE CDC 2023, 2 of which are invited papers. With Hongyu Zhou and Zirui Xu.
- 06/24/2023Paper on Safe Non-Stochastic Control of Control-Affine Systems. With Hongyu Zhou and Yichen Song.
- 06/22/2023Invited talk on Resource-Aware Multi-Robot Coordination at the Mathworks 2023 Research Summit.
- 04/22/2023Paper on Bandit Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Coordination in Unpredictable and Partially Observable Environments accepted to Robotics Science and System (RSS). With Zirui Xu and Xiaofeng Lin.
- 03/20/2023Sigma Gamma Tau Silver Shaft Award, University of Michigan.
- 02/01/2023Paper on Online Submodular Coordination with Bounded Tracking Regret: Theory, Algorithm, and Application to Multi-Robot Coordination has been accepted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). With Zirui Xu and Hongyu Zhou.
- 01/30/2023Invited talk on Safe Online Learning and Control at the 57th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 22-24, 2023.
- 01/03/2023Paper on Efficient Online Learning with Memory via Frank-Wolfe Optimization: Algorithms with Bounded Dynamic Regret and Applications to Control. With Hongyu Zhou and Zirui Xu.
- 12/09/2022Zirui Xu presents the paper Resource-Aware Distributed Submodular Maximization: A Paradigm for Multi-Robot Decision-Making at IEEE CDC (slides | video).
- 08/31/2022Online Submodular Coordination with Bounded Tracking Regret: Theory, Algorithm, and Application to Multi-Robot Coordination. With Zirui Xu and Hongyu Zhou.
- 08/31/2022Received Faculty Grant for organizing more than 60 events during the 2022 academic year within the Aerospace Department and beyond for our students, staff, and faculty.
- 08/18/2022Paper on Safe Perception-Based Control with Minimal Worst-Case Dynamic Regret. With Hongyu Zhou.
- 07/15/2022Zirui Xu and I will be organizing the invited session “Resource-Aware Learning and Optimization in Complex Networks” at the IEEE CDC 2022. We look forward to seeing you there.
- 07/15/2022Paper on Resource-Aware Distributed Submodular Maximization: A Paradigm for Multi-Robot Decision-Making has been accepted to IEEE CDC 2022. With Zirui Xu.
- 04/15/2022Paper Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With L. Zhou, P. Tokekar, and G. J. Pappas.
- 03/31/2022Paper on Resource-Aware Distributed Submodular Maximization: A Paradigm for Multi-Robot Decision-Making. With Zirui Xu.
- 03/13/2022Paper Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles: An Open-source Hands-on Robotics Course at MIT is accepted to IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC). With Luca Carlone, Kasra Khosoussi, Golnaz Habibi, Markus Ryll, Rajat Talak, Jingnan Shi, and Pasquale Antonante.
- 01/22/2021Paper Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles: An Open-source Hands-on Robotics Course at MIT submitted to IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC). With Luca Carlone, Kasra Khosoussi, Golnaz Habibi, Markus Ryll, Rajat Talak, Jingnan Shi, and Pasquale Antonante.
- 12/28/2021I will be an Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2022.
- 10/01/2021I proudly welcome 13 students to the Intelligent Robotics and Autonomy Lab (iRAL): 2 Ph.D, 5 M.Sc, and 6 B.Sc. students (including 4 UROPs); see our team here.
- 06/07/2021Paper Outlier-Robust Estimation: Hardness, Minimally-Tuned Algorithms, and Applications accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With Pasquale Antonante, Heng (Hank) Yang, and Luca Carlone.
- 05/18/212020 Honorable Mention from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters for the paper Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection. With Heng (Hank) Yang, Pasquale Antonante, and Luca Carlone.
- 05/14/21Seminar at the University of Michigan, Sigma Gamma Tau Series.
- 05/02/21Seminar at ETH, Autonomy Talk Series.
- 04/18/21Paper on Resilient Active Information Acquisition with Teams of Robots accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With Brent Schlotfeldt and George J. Pappas.
- 04/02/21Seminar at the University of Michigan, Controls Seminars Series.
- 02/19/21I am an Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2021.
- 02/01/21MathWorks news article on paper Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception.
- 01/01/21MathWorks SLAM implementation of GNC algorithm proposed in paper Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception.
- 12/13/20Paper on Robust and Adaptive Sequential Submodular Optimization accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). With Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas.
- 12/01/20Paper on Resilient Active Information Acquisition with Teams of Robots conditionally accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With Brent Schlotfeldt and George J. Pappas.
- 12/01/20MATLAB integration of algorithm proposed in Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection.
- 11/27/20Paper Outlier-Robust Estimation: Hardness, Minimally-Tuned Algorithms, and Applications conditionally accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With Pasquale Antonante, Heng (Hank) Yang, and Luca Carlone.
- 08/18/20Recent algorithmic results on outlier-robust estimation (cf. Best Paper Award in Robot Vision, ICRA 2020) will become an official function in MATLAB 2020b. Interview article to appear.
- 07/31/20New paper on Outlier-Robust Estimation: Hardness, Minimally-Tuned Algorithms, and Applications. With Pasquale Antonante, Heng (Hank) Yang, and Luca Carlone.
- 07/16/20Program committee member, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020.
- 07/16/20Paper on Robust and Adaptive Sequential Submodular Optimization conditionally accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). With Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas.
- 06/05/20Best Paper Award in Robot Vision, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020, for the paper Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection (video). With Heng Yang, Pasquale Antonante, and Luca Carlone.
- 05/14/20Paper LQG Control and Sensing Co-Design accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). With Luca Carlone, George J. Pappas, and Ali Jadbabaie.
- 05/11/20MIT LIDS|ALL Magazine interview featuring my research on robust autonomy, Algorithms that protect, Vol. 15.
- 04/14/20I will join the Aerospace Engineering team at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor on January 2021.
- 03/16/20Invited seminar, Northeastern University. Seminar title: Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Robust Combinatorial Optimization to Control and Learning.
- 03/04/20Invited seminar, Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Seminar title: Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Robust Combinatorial Optimization to Control and Learning.
- 02/28/20Invited seminar, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. Seminar title: Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Robust Combinatorial Optimization to Perception and Control.
- 02/07/20Invited seminar at the Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Michigan. Seminar title: Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Robust Combinatorial Optimization to Perception and Control.
- 10/16/19Promoted to research scientist at MIT.
Pages: 1 2