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Journal Papers (selected)

▸ Marine robots: From laboratories to the real underwater adventure [From the Guest Editors]. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2024, 31(1).

▸ Multi-modal Soft Amphibious Robots using Simple Plastic Sheet-reinforced Thin Pneumatic Actuators. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024. (invited for presentation at IROS 2024)

▸ Optimal strategies for pursuit-evasion differential games of players with damped double integrator dynamics. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023.

▸ Cooperative decision-making for heterogeneous UAV swarm confrontation based on self-play reinforcement learning (基于自博弈强化学习的异构无人机集群协同对抗决策方法), SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis (中国科学: 信息科学), 2023. (in Chinese).

▸ From simulation to reality: A learning framework for fish-like robots to perform control tasks. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022, 38(6): 3861-3878.

▸ Learning for attitude holding of a robotic fish: An end-to-end approach with sim-to-real transfer, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022, 38(2): 1287-1303. (selected for presentation at ICRA 2022) 

▸ Biomimetic electric sense-based localization: A solution for small underwater robots in a large-scale environment. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2022, 29(4): 50-65. (invited for presentation at ICRA 2023)

▸ Leveraging imitation learning on pose regulation problem of a robotic fish. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022.

▸ Electric sense based pose estimation and localization for small underwater robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L submission with ICRA 2022), 2022, 7(2): 2835-2842.

▸ Glowing sucker octopus (Stauroteuthis syrtensis)-inspired soft robotic gripper for underwater self-adaptive grasping and sensing. Advanced Science, 2022, 9(17): 2104382. 

▸ A fully-3D-printed tortoise-inspired soft robot with terrains-adaptive and amphibious landing capabilities. Advanced Materials Technologies, 2022.

▸ Towards Coordination Control of Multiple Fish-like Robots: Real-time Vision-based Pose Estimation and Tracking via Deep Neural Networks, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2021, 8(12): 1964–1976.

▸ A survey on underwater bionic electric perception (水下仿生电场感知综述), Journal of System Simulation, 2020, 32(12): 2289-2305. (in Chinese) 

▸ Limit-cycle-based design of formation control for mobile agents, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020, 65(8): 3530-3543. (Full paper)

▸ Limit-cycle-based decoupled design of circle formation control with collision avoidance for anonymous agents in a plane, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2017, 62(12): 6560-6567.

▸ Emergence of leadership in a robotic fish group under diverging individual personality traits, Royal Society Open Science, 2017, 4(5): 161015.

▸ Coordination of multiple robotic fish with applications to underwater robot competition, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2016, 63(2): 1280-1288.

▸ Controlling anonymous mobile agents with unidirectional locomotion to form formations on a circle, Automatica, 2014, 50(4): 1100-1108. (Regular paper)

▸ Forming circle formations of anonymous mobile agents with order preservation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2013, 58(12): 3248-3254.

Conference Papers (selected)

▸ Real-time estimation for the swimming direction of robotic fish based on IMU sensors. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.

▸ Pursuit-evasion differential games of players with different speeds in spaces of different dimensions. American Control Conference (ACC), 2022.

▸ FOP: Factorizing Optimal Joint Policy of Maximum-Entropy Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021.

▸ Formation control of multiple nonholonomic vehicles with local measurements in 3D space. IEEE 60th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2021.

▸ Decentralized circle formation control for fish-like robots in real-world via reinforcement learning. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.

▸ Motion planning for heterogeneous unmanned systems under partial observation from UAV. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.

▸ Stacking networks dynamically for IR based on plug-and-play framework. The 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020 .

▸ Path-following control of fish-like robots: A deep reinforcement learning approach. The 21st IFAC World Congress, 2020.

▸ Lazy workers benefit group performance in circle formation tasks. The 20th IFAC World Congress, 2017.

▸ Modeling of a carangiform-like robotic fish for both forward and backward swimming: based on the fixed point. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.