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Prof. Weijia Yao |
Research Interests
Intelligent robotics, multi-agent systems, nonlinear systems and control, machine learning, game theory
Selected Research
News
June, 2024 I am happy to announce that I will be Associate Editor for the flagship robotics journal IEEE Transactions on Robotics from July!
Jan, 2024 Welcome interested master students, PhD students and postdocs to join my group at Hunan University, China. See here for more details.
July, 2023 I am happy to announce that my PhD thesis will be officially available on the Springer STAR series! Make sure to check it out here!
August 26, 2022 I gave a talk about guiding vector fields for the graduate summer school on “Interdisciplinary and advanced technology in robotics and artificial technology” virtually at Hunan University.
May 5, 2022 I was thrilled to give a talk about my PhD work virtually at Peking University invited by Professor Zhongkui Li. The discussion was very interesting and insightful!
Feb. 14, 2022 After a two round process, I was selected as a finalist for the euRobotics George Giralt PhD award! The third round is based on the oral presentation at next European Robotics Forum in Rotterdam, after which the award winner will be announced.
Oct. 21, 2021 I was honored to present “Guiding vector fields for robot motion control” at the Groningen-Lyon seminar invited by Professor Bayu Jayawardhana and Professor Vincent Andrieu.
Oct. 8, 2021 I got my PhD degree with the distinction (cum laude)!
Oct. 5, 2021 I visited Professor Stefano Stramigioli's impressive lab!
Oct, 2021 My PhD thesis “Guiding vector fields for robot motion control” is available online now! See here.
July, 2021 Our paper has been accepted to 2021 CDC.
June, 2021 Our ICRA paper “Distributed coordinated path following using guiding vector fields” is selected as a Best Conference Paper Award Finalist!
June, 2021 I will publicly defend my PhD thesis on Oct. 8, 2021 at 12.45 pm!
Jun. 29 - Jul. 2, 2021 Excited to present our work “Refining dichotomy convergence in vector-field guided path following control” at 2021 European Control Conference (ECC) online.
Jun. 8 - Jun. 11, 2021 Attended DISC summer school .
Feb 28, 2021 Paper on Distributed coordinated path following using guiding vector fields accepted to ICRA21