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Publications (23)

cs.LG2024

GPgym: A Remote Service Platform with Gaussian Process Regression for Online Learning

Xiaobing Dai, Zewen Yang

Machine learning is now widely applied across various domains, including industry, engineering, and research. While numerous mature machine learning models have been open-sourced o…

cs.HC2026

A Multi-Technique Approach for Improving Summary Polar Diagrams

Aleksandar Anžel, Zewen Yang, Georges Hattab

While the polar system may lack the universal familiarity of its Cartesian counterpart, it remains indispensable for certain tasks. Summary polar diagrams, such as Taylor and mutua…

cs.RO2026

Safe Consensus of Cooperative Manipulation with Hierarchical Event-Triggered Control Barrier Functions

Simiao Zhuang, Bingkun Huang, Zewen Yang

Cooperative transport and manipulation of heavy or bulky payloads by multiple manipulators requires coordinated formation tracking, while simultaneously enforcing strict safety con…

cs.RO2025

SafeFlow: Safe Robot Motion Planning with Flow Matching via Control Barrier Functions

Xiaobing Dai, Zewen Yang, Dian Yu +4

Recent advances in generative modeling have led to promising results in robot motion planning, particularly through diffusion and flow matching (FM)-based models that capture compl…

eess.SY2024

Decentralized Event-Triggered Online Learning for Safe Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems with Gaussian Process Regression

Xiaobing Dai, Zewen Yang, Mengtian Xu +3

Consensus control in multi-agent systems has received significant attention and practical implementation across various domains. However, managing consensus control under unknown d…

cs.RO2026

Safe-Night VLA: Seeing the Unseen via Thermal-Perceptive Vision-Language-Action Models for Safety-Critical Manipulation

Dian Yu, Qingchuan Zhou, Bingkun Huang +2

The paper introduces Safe-Night VLA, a robot manipulation system that combines long-wave infrared thermal sensing with a vision‑language backbone and adds safety guarantees via con…

#thermal perception#vision-language-action#safety-constrained control#multimodal manipulation
cs.LG2025

Streaming Generated Gaussian Process Experts for Online Learning and Control: Extended Version

Zewen Yang, Dongfa Zhang, Xiaobing Dai +5

Gaussian Processes (GPs), as a nonparametric learning method, offer flexible modeling capabilities and calibrated uncertainty quantification for function approximations. Additional…

eess.SY2021

Distributed Learning Consensus Control for Unknown Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems based on Gaussian Processes

Zewen Yang, Stefan Sosnowski, Qingchen Liu +3

In this paper, a distributed learning leader-follower consensus protocol based on Gaussian process regression for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with unknown dynamics is…

cs.MA2024

Cooperative Learning with Gaussian Processes for Euler-Lagrange Systems Tracking Control under Switching Topologies

Zewen Yang, Songbo Dong, Armin Lederer +5

This work presents an innovative learning-based approach to tackle the tracking control problem of Euler-Lagrange multi-agent systems with partially unknown dynamics operating unde…

cs.LG2024

Asynchronous Distributed Gaussian Process Regression for Online Learning and Dynamical Systems: Complementary Document

Zewen Yang, Xiaobing Dai, Sandra Hirche

This is a complementary document for the paper titled "Asynchronous Distributed Gaussian Process Regression for Online Learning and Dynamical Systems".

cs.AI2024

AI Readiness in Healthcare through Storytelling XAI

Akshat Dubey, Zewen Yang, Georges Hattab

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly advancing and radically impacting everyday life, driven by the increasing availability of computing power. Despite this trend, the adoption of AI…

cs.RO2026

RCM Constraint-Consistent Dynamic Control in Surgical Robots

Yu Li, Hamid Sadeghian, Zewen Yang +2

Robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) requires accurate enforcement of the remote center of motion (RCM) constraint to ensure safe tool motion through a trocar. Exist…

cs.LG2024

Whom to Trust? Elective Learning for Distributed Gaussian Process Regression

Zewen Yang, Xiaobing Dai, Akshat Dubey +2

This paper introduces an innovative approach to enhance distributed cooperative learning using Gaussian process (GP) regression in multi-agent systems (MASs). The key contribution…

cs.CY2024

A Nested Model for AI Design and Validation

Akshat Dubey, Zewen Yang, Georges Hattab

The growing AI field faces trust, transparency, fairness, and discrimination challenges. Despite the need for new regulations, there is a mismatch between regulatory science and AI…

cs.RO2026

Contact-Safe Reinforcement Learning with ProMP Reparameterization and Energy Awareness

Bingkun Huang, Yuhe Gong, Zewen Yang +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) approaches based on Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are predominantly applied in the robot joint space, often relying on limited task-specific informat…

eess.SY2024

Kernel-based Learning for Safe Control of Discrete-Time Unknown Systems under Incomplete Observations

Zewen Yang, Xiaobing Dai, Weijie Yang +3

Safe control for dynamical systems is critical, yet the presence of unknown dynamics poses significant challenges. In this paper, we present a learning-based control approach for t…

eess.SY2023

Can Learning Deteriorate Control? Analyzing Computational Delays in Gaussian Process-Based Event-Triggered Online Learning

Xiaobing Dai, Armin Lederer, Zewen Yang +1

When the dynamics of systems are unknown, supervised machine learning techniques are commonly employed to infer models from data. Gaussian process (GP) regression is a particularly…

cs.LG2026

Quality or Quantity? Error-Informed Selective Online Learning with Gaussian Processes in Multi-Agent Systems: Extended Version

Zewen Yang, Xiaobing Dai, Jiajun Cheng +2

Effective cooperation is pivotal in distributed learning for multi-agent systems, where the interplay between the quantity and quality of the machine learning models is crucial. Th…

cs.RO2025

Prompt2Auto: From Motion Prompt to Automated Control via Geometry-Invariant One-Shot Gaussian Process Learning

Zewen Yang, Xiaobing Dai, Dongfa Zhang +5

Learning from demonstration allows robots to acquire complex skills from human demonstrations, but conventional approaches often require large datasets and fail to generalize acros…

cs.RO2026

UniConFlow: A Unified Constrained Flow-Matching Framework for Certified Motion Planning

Zewen Yang, Xiaobing Dai, Dian Yu +4

Generative models have become increasingly powerful tools for robot motion generation, enabling flexible and multimodal trajectory generation across various tasks. Yet, most existi…

eess.SY2023

Learning-based Control for PMSM Using Distributed Gaussian Processes with Optimal Aggregation Strategy

Zhenxiao Yin, Xiaobing Dai, Zewen Yang +3

The growing demand for accurate control in varying and unknown environments has sparked a corresponding increase in the requirements for power supply components, including permanen…

cs.RO2026

Residual Reinforcement Learning for Robot Teleoperation under Stochastic Delays

Kaize Deng, Zewen Yang

Stochastic communication delays in teleoperation introduce signal discontinuities that undermine control stability and degrade control performance. Consequently, the conventional r…

eess.SY2024

Cooperative Online Learning for Multi-Agent System Control via Gaussian Processes with Event-Triggered Mechanism: Extended Version

Xiaobing Dai, Zewen Yang, Sihua Zhang +3

In the realm of the cooperative control of multi-agent systems (MASs) with unknown dynamics, Gaussian process (GP) regression is widely used to infer the uncertainties due to its m…