Sunil Kumar Rajendran successfully defended his PhD and became the first student to earn a PhD degree from CIAO lab! During his PhD, Sunil published 2 journals, 5 conference papers (Sunil’s Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aKYLSvMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao), and 1 journal paper is currently under review. Thanks for your hard work and congratulations again! Read more…
Congratulation to undergraduate student Chase Joyner on finishing his summer research intern in CIAO lab! Chase was a freshman at Stanford and was working with Dr. Yao during summer 2022 on the light-than-air vehicle development. He implemented a distributed sensing and distributed actuation algorithm on a robotic blimp which enables Read more…
We are very excited to announce that our lab has received an NSF ECCS grant. This 3-year project will focus on developing novel and transformative approaches to co-design scheduling and control strategies for resource constrained cyber physical systems.
Our paper entitled “Observability Analysis and Reduced-Order Observer Design for a Super-Coiled Polymer-Driven Robotic Eye” by Sunil Kumar Rajendran, Dr. Ningshi Yao, and our collaborator Dr. Qi Wei and Dr. Feitian Zhang was accepted by the 61th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2022). Sunil Kumar Rajendran will present Read more…
Our PhD student Sunil Kumar Rajendran received the ECE “2022 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant” award. Congratulations!
Dr. Yao attended a networking and career discussion event organized by the Girls’ Leadership Committee (GLC) at McLean High School. As one of the panelist, Dr. Yao shared her experiences and insights of being a female engineer and professor for young women interested in STEM majors.
Our paper entitled “Event-triggered Scheduling and Control Co-design for Networked Control Systems with Sub-schedulability” by Dr. Ningshi Yao and our collaborator Dr. Fumin Zhang was accepted by American Control Conference (ACC) 2022. Dr. Ningshi Yao will present this work in the Event-triggered Control Session of ACC2022 on June 8. Look Read more…
The second ACC workshop on the topic of “Recent Advancement of Human Autonomy Interaction and Integration” co-organized by Dr. Yao will be held on June 07 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel. This workshop is motivated by a healthy growth of the body of research Read more…
Our joint research work with Virginia Tech was funded by 4-VA. This one-year research projects will study teaching practices and curricular innovations with the applications of robotics that will engage students and improve learning experiences for students in the STEM field of Construction Engineering and Management (CEM).