The Control, Intelligent Autonomy/Robots and Optimization Research Lab consists of both undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering and robotics under the supervision of Dr. Ningshi Yao in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Mason University.
The research areas our group is actively engaged with are control theory, real-time scheduling, human-robot interaction/teaming, mixed integer optimization for resource allocation, bio-inspired robotics and autonomy, machine learning, and cyber-physical human systems.
Dr. Ningshi Yao is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. She received her PhD from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020, and the BS in Automatic Control from Zhejiang University, China, in 2014. Prior to joining Mason, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology from November 2020 to July 2021. Her research interests include real-time scheduling, control theory, cyber-physical systems, machine learning and human-robot interaction.
I am looking for motivated students interested in control theory, AI and robotics research. Ciao lab will have 2 new PhD openings in Spring and Fall 2024. If you are interested, please feel free to email me at nyao4 at gmu dot edu.
Dr. Yao and Dr. Shishika came on “the Mason Mechanical Engineer” show to talk about blimps, lighter than air robots, including the biologically-inspired blimp known as “Flappy”, which our students use for what is essentially Read more…
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. 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 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 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 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 Read more…
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