News

July 2025

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Our paper titled “A Probabilistic Inference Approach for Skill-Based Shared Autonomy in Assistive Robotic Manipulation” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

May 2025

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Dr. Chao Jiang chaired the session “Reinforcement Learning III” at the 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

May 2025

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Ph.D. student, Varun Bharadwaj, presented our paper titled “Preference Augmented Q-Learning for Patient Exercise Scheduling in a Robotic Rehabilitation Gym” at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

April 2025

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Our paper titled “Dynamic Patient-Robot Assignment in a Simulated Stochastic Robotic Rehabilitation Gym” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics (T-MRB).

April 2025

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Dr. Chao Jiang received the University of Wyoming Faculty Grant-In-Aid seed grant.

March 2025

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Congratulations to Ph.D. student, Varun Bharadwaj, on finishing 3rd in the College of Engineering and Physics Sciences Three-Minute Thesis Competition. He, among a few others, will move on to represent the College in the university-wide competition in the fall.

September 2024

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Ph.D. student, Varun Bharadwaj, presented our paper titled “Learning Skill Training Schedules from Domain Experts in a Rehabilitation Gym Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning” at the 2024 IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob).

July 2024

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Ph.D. student, Umur Atan, presented our paper titled “Assistive Control of Robot Arms Via Adaptive Shared Autonomy” at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Boston, USA.

February 2024

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Our paper titled “Distributed Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control via Belief Propagation for Multi-Robot Formation Navigation” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

October 2023

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Our paper titled “Learning Skill Training Schedules from Domain Experts for a Multi-Patient Multi-Robot Rehabilitation Gym.” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.

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Our paper titled “End-to-end decentralized formation control using a graph neural network-based learning method.” has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

June 2023

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Our paper titled “Incorporating Control Barrier Functions in Distributed Model Predictive Control for Multi-Robot Coordinated Control.” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.

December 2022

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Chao Jiang is selected as Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM).

October 2021

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Our paper titled “Automated patient-robot assignment for a robotic rehabilitation gym: a simplified simulation model.” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.

December 2020

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Chao Jiang presented the work “Multi-Robot Guided Policy Search for Learning Decentralized Swarm Control” in the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).

August 2020

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Dr. Vesna Novak and I received the NSF National Robotics Initiative (NRI) grant.